Fun Home

I really like comic memoirs. Something about the graphic medium seems to fit the act of glossing memories like old film reels very well. Fun Home also does an excellent job bridging the gap between comic art and creative fiction writing. The narration is composed of segmented chunks of prose that could easily be collected and turned into a novel. But the author is able to keep the visual part of her story integral by leaving the vague generalities to the prose narration while the graphics tack the vagueness down with plenty of concrete 'e.g.s'. I also really like how the text blocks, which contain anything from labels, dialogue, and narration, are not limited to any specific part of the frame. The boxes drift around the panel and interact with the image and characters in interesting ways. To go back to the subject of the graphic memoir, I think the author's loose-detail comic style lends a genuine voice to her life's story. Like Persepolis, Fun Home invites us to assume the author's loose self-caricature as our own.