Fun Home

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 three internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian and was adapted into a Broadway musical, which won five Tony Awards, and is currently being adapted for cinema. 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 preeminent 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. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award.