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Dec 10, 2020 · Who was Bruce Bechdel? What is his role in Alison Bechdel’s book Fun Home? Bruce Bechdel was the father of Alison Bechdel. The two had a difficult relationship due in part to her father’s tumultuous nature and repressed sexuality. Read more about Bruce Bechdel and his relationship with daughter Alison. Bruce Bechdel: Alison Bechdel’s Father
Early life. Bechdel was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Helen Augusta ( née Fontana) [4] and Bruce Allen Bechdel. Her family was Roman Catholic. Her father was an army veteran who was stationed in West Germany. He was also a high school English teacher, working full-time and operating a funeral home part-time.
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 rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father.
- Alison Bechdel
- 2006
Oct 16, 2006 · Mon 16 Oct 2006 04.18 EDT. When Alison Bechdel's father was 44, two years younger than she is now, he killed himself by stepping into the path of an oncoming truck, not far from their home...
Alison ’s father, a provincial English teacher and World War II veteran who loves literature and surface aesthetics of all kinds. Bruce is extremely feminine in Alison’s view, as he’s obsessed with flowers and artificial, surface-level beauty of all kinds, which is acted out in his obsession with restoring the Bechdel family’s old Victorian house.
Jun 18, 2006 · Bechdel's father, Bruce, was gay (as she puts it: "a manic-depressive, closeted fag"), and "Fun Home" is at its heart a story about a daughter trying to understand her father through the...
Jun 8, 2006 · Fun Home is a memoir in graphic novel form, centering Alison Bechdel's coming of age, struggles with her sexual identity, and her father, who committed suicide when she was 20 years old. Alison finds out after her dad dies that he was gay.
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