“Alison Bechdel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
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Posted by Web Team, June 21, 2006
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Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons
presents
Center for New Words
Friday, June 23, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Meet Alison’s father, an historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family’s Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Don’t miss Dykes to Watch Out For icon Bechdel discussing (and showing slides from!) this breakout book, a father-daughter tale pitch-perfectly illustrated with sweetly gothic drawings and - like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis - a story exhilaratingly suited to the graphic memoir form.
Free and open to the public. For more information e-mail diane.hammer@simmons.edu.
