Voices from the Archive: Alison Bechdel on Fun Home

Alison Bechdel commented briefly on Tom Crippen’s Fun Home review.

Tom, I think you’re spot on about my dad and his experience with grad school. I don’t think he had a nervous breakdown, but he certainly freaked out when faced with stiffer competition. I definitely did not follow that path to its proper end in Fun Home. At the time it seemed just too complicated, like it would drag the narrative off track. But of course that’s probably an indication that it was worth pursuing.

And thanks for corrective critique, Noah et al. Really. The praise gets a bit wearing. I’ve been rather surprised that no one called FH pretentious before.

The description of me as a one-armed tennis player is eerily apt—I often feel like that. And lemme tell you, it’s fucking exhausting.

 

3 thoughts on “Voices from the Archive: Alison Bechdel on Fun Home

  1. It’s funny; I think we used to get a good bit more comments from artists/industry folks. I bet it’s because everybody read Dirk’s Journalista, and Dirk really tried to link everything. There’s no central link blogger like that about anymore, alas….

  2. He absolutely does! But he’s not a link blogger like Dirk; Dirk linked pretty much everything we did that was comics related (and did the same for a whole bunch of other sites.) Tom’s much more selective (as I am myself, when I do my weekly link blogging.)

    There’s just not a one-stop location for everyone to find everything anymore, is all.

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