Fun Home

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form. * Daily Telegraph *Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald, Fun Home is a book that demands to be read again and again. * Royal Academy Magazine *One of the very best graphic novels ever * Booklist *A brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form * Time *An astonishing advertisement for this emerging literary form * Entertainment Weekly *A beautiful, assured piece of work… Bechdel’s cartooning has transmuted [her father’s] life and death into an extraordinary book * Salon.com *A work of passion… It’s perhaps one of the best books I’ve read that explores sexuality and identity * Writing Magazine *

Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic and, most recently, Are You My Mother? For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered ‘one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre.’ Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and the New York Times Book Review.