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22 Reddit comments about Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic:

u/ebop · 14 pointsr/actuallesbians

Lesbian/Queer main characters:

Batwoman - She's a lesbian and her romantic relationships play a fairly important role in the series. Her villains are a bit B-list but they're enjoyable reads never the less. Some controversy over DC's decision to prohibit her "happiness" and troubles with the talented creative staff that are worth investigating beforehand but it's worth noting that these issues do not effect the trade paperbacks 1-3. Don't make my mistake and accidentally buy Batgirl comics and wonder when she's supposed to start kissing ladies.

Lumberjanes - The trade paperback is supposed to come out some time next year but individual issues are currently being published. All ages comic that portrays a scout type group at a summer camp full of monsters. I'm not personally reading it but I've heard nothing but good things.

Funhome - A proper "graphic novel." An unbelievably intelligent and nuanced perspective on gender and sexuality. Bechdel compares her coming out process against her late father's closeted homosexuality to draw an intimate but calculated portrait of American sexuality and family.

Lesbian/Queer minor characters:

Saga - Holy shit, I can't recommend this enough. So utterly fantastic that words fail me. I buy this for everyone I know who's even faintly interested in comics.

The Walking Dead - The queer characters don't show up for a long while but this is the series the very popular TV show is based on. It's a little "Drama-y" for me but my girlfriend's dad gobbles them up like there's no tomorrow.

Not queer but awesome:

Chew - A world where poultry is outlawed and people have superpowers only related to food. My mom called it "kind of weird" which it is. I can't get enough.

Revival - The dead come to life but they're mostly just cranky, okay, sometimes murderous, but not that often. Strong female protagonists.

u/piperson · 11 pointsr/graphicnovels

Barefoot Gen is written by a survivor of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It's very moving and raw and personally I think it's better than Maus or Blankets. It should be required reading in all schools.

Persepolis is another amazing read. It's written by someone who grew up in Iran and witnessed and ran away from the revolution in the late 70's. It shows that the people in Iran and that part of the world are just like us, though because of America's (and other foreign powers) intervention, has become really conservative and hostile. I think this is another book that should be required reading in schools.

Fun Home is another personal tale about a woman's recollections of growing up and about her father.

Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings Adrian often writes very personal stories that are heart felt and touching.

American Born Chinese Gene Yang writes about growing up as an Asian American.

Epileptic French, David B writes about his Epileptic brother.

u/bigomess · 7 pointsr/books

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Safe Area Gorazde By Joe Sacco

The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Not non-fiction but

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware is about as non-pop, non-pulp as it gets.

u/PDXguybrarian · 4 pointsr/gaybros

You should read Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. Granted, it's told through the lens of the 60's and 70's, so things might be different today, but still a very interesting story...

u/EventListener · 4 pointsr/AskLiteraryStudies

Umberto Eco's Six Walks in the Fictional Woods is a very accessible introduction to thinking about literature in a way that blends narratology and semiotics. It generally sticks pretty closely to talking about the stories he has in mind, so I wished while reading it that I'd had a copy of Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie on hand, among others.

David Lodge's The Art of Fiction used to be popular as a supplementary textbook in creative writing classes because it just uses nice examples to provide a basic language for talking about literature.

John Sutherland has a number of books intended for a general audience that either introduce basic concepts of literary criticism or that just make careful reading fun, e.g. How Literature Works, A Little History of Literature, and The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction (an omnibus edition of the books he's probably most well known for).

Gaston Bachelard comes to mind as someone who, like Gass, is just a delight to read: The Poetics of Space, Air and Dreams, etc. I'd put some other writers writing about their personal relationships to reading in a similar category: Nicholson Baker, U and I; Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary; and even Alison Bechdel, Fun Home.

u/elizabro · 4 pointsr/actuallesbians

I'm currently in the middle of reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (who also writes and illustrates Dykes to Watch Out For). It's a memoir about Bechdel coming out as a lesbian while also coming to terms with her father's suicide and learning that he was a closeted homosexual. It's also a comic book, so it might be an easier read if you are dyslexic. I haven't finished the book yet so I can't wholeheartedly recommend it, but I'm enjoying it so far.

u/dinolesbo · 3 pointsr/actuallesbians

[Breaks through wall]

HAVE I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU! Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a comic I have yet to read, but am suggesting it because I'm a bit obsessed with the musical adaption (which is just called Fun Home and is 100% worth looking into!). I have to throw it out here.

The author, Alison Bechdel, has other comics too! Here are some of them.

u/inkblot81 · 3 pointsr/booksuggestions

I've noticed a few on my library shelves, but haven't read them all yet:

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. It's Bechdel's memoir about her father, and an excellent read. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618871713/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_zF8HzbJGXQY79

The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti by Rick Geary. It covers a milestone legal case in 20th century US. https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Vanzetti-Treasury-Century-Murder/dp/1561639362

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It's a text on the nature of comics, in graphic novel form. It's a classic. https://www.amazon.com/dp/006097625X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_sO8HzbDMZF7EJ

The Book of Genesis, illustrated by R. Crumb. He illustrated the entire text of this book of the bible. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393061027/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_8U8HzbZBERQNM

And here's a good list from The Atlantic Monthly: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/08/comic-books-as-journalism-10-masterpieces-of-graphic-nonfiction/243351/ (I've read and enjoyed a couple of these titles, so I feel safe in assuming the others are just as good)

u/klops00 · 2 pointsr/comicbooks

A lot of good ones here. Not action packed, but Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is one of the best-written graphic novels I've ever read.

u/bootsorhearts · 2 pointsr/comicbooks

For narrative/creative non-fiction, I would recommend the memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. It also has a very well-received sequel that I haven't had the chance to read yet called Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama.

u/DavinderB · 2 pointsr/comicbooks

Curses (or anything else by Kevin Huizenga)
Fun Home
Epileptic

u/boboclock · 1 pointr/iamverysmart

But you said yourself that the author rejects the term. The point about prose novels starting out serial is valid and totally solid though.

I think you might be surprised by the quality of some graphic novels though. Habibi, Tardi's 'It Was the War of the Trenches' & 'Goddamn This War!' , Fun Home, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, This One Summer

u/PharaonicWolf · 1 pointr/MangaCollectors

Though rare, it's sometimes possible to find library bindings new on Amazon (see this listing for an example)

u/paultagonist · 1 pointr/depression

Graphic novels work well too. There's a great many adult graphic novels. I just read one, Fun Home, that was TIME's #1 book of the year. And on a bajillion other "best of" lists. It was available at my library and I'm really glad I checked it out.

u/mandaliet · 1 pointr/books
u/CalamariRegales · 1 pointr/funny


Also an excellent and depressing graphic novel!
www.amazon.com/Fun-Home-A-Family-Tragicomic/dp/0618871713

u/TheWingedPig · 1 pointr/comicbooks

Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard has a main character who is in a relationship with a trans woman. It's a pretty popular series that I actually don't like, so I can't personally recommend it, but don't let my opinion sway you because like I said it is pretty popular.

Low by Rick Remender and Greg Toccini has a lesbian character. She isn't the main character however, and her sexual preference really only plays into about one issue (at least as far as I've read, which is through Vol 2.) Low is one of my favorite ongoing comics right now, I highly recommend it.

I'm pretty sure Jupiter's Circle and Jupiter's Legacy have a few gay characters. I've never read either of the two (so I can't comment on them), but based off of this (NSFW), I'm guessing I'm right.

And in terms of graphic novels, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is very enjoyable. It has a "sequel" as well called "Are You My Mother". They're both autobiographical, so you may want to avoid them if you're just looking for fiction, but otherwise I do recommend Fun Home (the "sequel" is still in my backlog right now.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Since you say you like old people, can I tell you about my grandma? She is the world's greatest old person, and I have her on my mind right now because she's dealing with some pneumonia. Anyway, here she is doing some fishing on her 101st birthday back in August. (Yes, really. She's 101.) And here we are screwing around at my graduation in December! She's hilarious, and a spitfire. They gave her some painkillers a couple of nights ago and a little later she grabbed a nurse when they were checking up on her. She had the nurse lean in and she stage-whispered, "You know, I have a very special man in my life? I do!" The nurse looked properly scandalized, and gran went, "He's right over there! It's my son, silly. What were you thinking?"


ANYWAY. Speaking of making days, this would totally make mine if I were to win. Thanks so much for the contest, and I hope you have a good Saturday!