Getlin, Josh (January 21, 2007). "Book Critics Circle nominees declared". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 19, 2014. What it means to identify as queer differs by person, it’s an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of sexual orientations and gender identities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, asexual, amongst many others. Borden, Jeremy (May 13, 2014). "S.C. Senate votes to fund teaching U.S. Constitution as compromise on book cuts at College of Charleston". The Post and Courier. Charleston, SC: Evening Post Industries . Retrieved May 15, 2014. With its focus on friendship and the passing of time, Alison often recalls Stewart’s graphic short story collection It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be. While its predecessor was enjoyable but uneven, here she sustains the drama, and the parade of small things – baths and bars, studios and shopfronts, spiralling arguments and moments of joy – builds into something rather special. Before you know it, half Alison’s life has rushed by, and she is the established artist feeling bemused and invigorated by the next generation – and able to dispense more balanced advice than the old men who preceded her. Chute, Hillary L. (2010). Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (1sted.). New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15062-0. OCLC 496610090.

Laura Miller; Hillary Frey (December 12, 2006). "Best debuts of 2006". salon.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2008 . Retrieved December 12, 2006. Harper, Rachel (January 25, 2007). "Library board ready to approve new materials selection policy". The Marshall Democrat-News. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016 . Retrieved January 26, 2007. Tison, Hélène (March 2007). "Drag as metaphor and the quest for meaning in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (PDF). GRAAT. Tours: Université François Rabelais. on-line edition (1) . Retrieved August 8, 2007. Bechdel's richly imagined, and diligently researched, historical portrayals of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, and author Virginia Woolf, spliced together with Bechdel's own therapeutic journey with text from the psychoanalytic writings of Alice Miller, along with the story of Bechdel's own reading-through and relating to the works of Sigmund Freud.Victory! Fun Home Restored in New Jersey High Schools | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund". February 26, 2019 . Retrieved December 15, 2019.

But it meshes beautifully with this sense of opening up, risking pain and vulnerability, in the search for acceptance and happiness. The sequel My Solo Exchange Diary take us further into Kabi’s life. Joost, Wesley (May 15, 2000). "Sing Lesbian Cat, Fly Lesbian Seagull: An Interview With Alison Bechdel" (PDF). The Guardsman. p.10. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2015 . Retrieved September 21, 2015. (pg. 11 missing)There is, she says, a lot more to be said about the whole experience, and her hope now is to make A Funeral in Fr eiburg the beginning of a full length novel: “After someone dies, there’s so much bad behaviour, however good people’s intentions. It fell to me and my dad to drive to Germany to remove everything from my grandmother’s flat and distribute it to her family – and either everyone wanted something, or no one did.” Animation and the writing of a graphic novel are, she thinks, pretty similar in that they’re both extremely labour intensive. “But this is the first piece I’ve made that is truly personal,” she says. It captures something that is quite complicated: the territory that lies between a secular upbringing and a Jewish identity, and how the two might (or might not, in the case of A Funeral in Fr eiburg) fit together. In this breathtaking and witty graphic novel, Jake Wyatt and Choo explore the power and limits of wishes in a modern fable rooted in magic and family secrets. How to be Ace takes us through Rebecca’s life from her school life where she was bullied and confused to an adult struggling with her identity and experiencing anxiety and OCD. It’s insightful, honest, and depicts asexual relationships in ways that we’re yet to see elsewhere. Monstress is an Image Comics series beloved by fans and a wonderful example of how to writer a powerful queer protagonist.

Getlin, Josh (January 21, 2007). "Book Critics Circle nominees declared". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original (free abstract of paid archive) on October 1, 2007 . Retrieved January 22, 2007. a b c d Bauer, Heike (2014). "Vital Lines Drawn From Books: Difficult Feelings in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Are You My Mother?" (PDF). Journal of Lesbian Studies. 18 (3): 266–281. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2014.896614. PMID 24972285. S2CID 38954208. In January 2022, the Wentzille school board in Missouri voted 4–3 to ban Fun Home, going against the review committee's 8–1 vote to retain the book in the district's libraries. [150] The ban included three other books, as well: George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy. [150] 2022: Rapid City, South Dakota [ edit ] a b c Chute, Hillary (July 11, 2006). "Gothic Revival". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on July 19, 2006 . Retrieved August 7, 2006.

Brantley, Ben (October 23, 2013). "Family as a Hall of Mirrors". The New York Times . Retrieved October 23, 2013. a b c d Bechdel, Alison. "Alison Bechdel: Comic Con 2007". Velvetpark (Interview). Interviewed by Michelle Paradise. Archived from the original ( Flash Video) on August 22, 2007 . Retrieved August 24, 2007. Time magazine named Alison Bechdel's Fun Home number one of its "10 Best Books of the Year." Lev Grossman and Richard LeCayo described Fun Home as "the unlikeliest literary success of 2006," and called it "a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too… Bechdel's breathtakingly smart commentary duets with eloquent line drawings. Forget genre and sexual orientation: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other." [31] Armitage, Hugh (March 24, 2014). "South Carolina warned over "unconstitutional" Fun Home uni cuts". Digital Spy. London: Hearst Magazines UK . Retrieved March 25, 2014.