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A review by togidemi
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
3.0
i'm not a smart person therefore i do not enjoy smart comics
Okay, first of all, a petty remark: this graphic novel isn't really funny. "yeah togi it's about alison's distant dead father, ofc it's not gonna be funny?" yEAH BUT THE BLURB SAID IT WOULD BE. I WAS WAITING UNTIL THE LAST PAGE FOR THE CHUCKLES AND RECEIVED NONE. Now that that's out of the way... yeah it was okay. Like. Yep.
It was clearly a very introspective and heartfelt comic, but it just doesn't do it for me. Lots of text is pretty much a given for autobio graphic novels, but the text and art didn't really jive well enough to justify its existence as a comic. ("Blankets" is the only other autobio graphic novel I've read, and it just WORKS as a comic. it's also one of my favorites so i'm probably just being biased) It's also loaded with borderline pretentious literary references - Camus, Fitzgerald, Proust, Wilde, Joyce, the Odyssey, you know, THOSE fuckers - that are just alienating when you have no idea where the metaphor is going.
hope the musical's better smh
Okay, first of all, a petty remark: this graphic novel isn't really funny. "yeah togi it's about alison's distant dead father, ofc it's not gonna be funny?" yEAH BUT THE BLURB SAID IT WOULD BE. I WAS WAITING UNTIL THE LAST PAGE FOR THE CHUCKLES AND RECEIVED NONE. Now that that's out of the way... yeah it was okay. Like. Yep.
It was clearly a very introspective and heartfelt comic, but it just doesn't do it for me. Lots of text is pretty much a given for autobio graphic novels, but the text and art didn't really jive well enough to justify its existence as a comic. ("Blankets" is the only other autobio graphic novel I've read, and it just WORKS as a comic. it's also one of my favorites so i'm probably just being biased) It's also loaded with borderline pretentious literary references - Camus, Fitzgerald, Proust, Wilde, Joyce, the Odyssey, you know, THOSE fuckers - that are just alienating when you have no idea where the metaphor is going.
hope the musical's better smh