Fun Home
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in ru
Cover of the hardback edition
Alison Bechdel took photographs of herself posing as each character, to use as reference in her drawing. Here, she poses for a drawing of her father.
The French edition of Fun Home, published by Éditions Denoël
Alison Bechdel at a London signing for Fun Home
Sunbeam Bread
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Sunbeam Bread is a franchised brand of white bread, rolls, and other baked goods owned by the Quality Bakers of America cooperative. The bread products are produced and distributed by regional bakerie
Fun Home
…were also family friends and babysitters. At the age of 44, two weeks after his wife requested a divorce, he stepped into the path of an oncoming Sunbeam Bread truck and was killed. Although the evidence is equivocal, Alison concludes that her father died by suicide. The story also deals with Alison's own…
Sunbeam Bread outlet in Houston.