Comments on: lists

By: dakutch

dakutch — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:21:22 +0000

I’ve been reading DTWOF for lots of years, and checking this site intermittently for some time, and was glad that I never felt compelled to start a post with “I’m a straight male, but …. ”

but here we are. I am indeed a straight male (married, kids, middle-aged, the whole deal) and none of that stopped me from devouring Fun Home, loving it, buying copies to give to friends, etc. it certainly was one of the best books I read in the last decade.

just so you know that you have admirers with all sorts of bizarre lifestyles.

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:06:52 +0000

I just read Fun Home and enjoyed it thoroughly. It’s not at all a book that only a certain group of readers can relate to, but rather a great book with universal appeal. Congrats on being on all the lists here. The AV Club list for comics is a lot better than the one I saw in Paste, which includes a lot of superhero junk. I still wish there were a list exclusively for alternative comics about real people’s stories. Comics like Fun Home are pure literature.

By: val

val — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:05 +0000

@anna - love that autostraddle link. same site put "fun home" on their list of 10 awesome books of the '00s by queers.

By: taylor

taylor — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:27:26 +0000

Hi! I haven’t commented here often, but I’m a huge fan, and you’ve been popping up all over our site, Autostraddle, lately. I wrote the rather silly & simplistic, but kind of fun article here:

http://www.autostraddle.com/how-alison-bechdel-wrote-the-l-word-a-lesbian-stereotypes-crossover-24497/

There have been so many responses on my article singing your praises- I’m happy to know that our readers were already quite familiar with DTWOF, though some of them definitely have a lot of catching up to do!

And here’s another article we wrote recently with some fun home love:
http://www.autostraddle.com/lesbian-books-lady-gaga-lohan-2443/

I plan to do some “best of” graphic novel lists soon, so of course Fun Home will be showing up there as well.

We’ve got a lot of love for you over at Autostraddle & I am so happy to see Fun Home on so many decade’s best lists! It absolutely deserves the attention it gets, and more.

By: Michelle Gruben

Michelle Gruben — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:35:46 +0000

How charmingly modest. Fun Home was made of win, as the kids say today.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:06:57 +0000

Speaking of Alison popping up all over the web…

http://www.autostraddle.com/how-alison-bechdel-wrote-the-l-word-a-lesbian-stereotypes-crossover-24497/

By: Fiona L.

Fiona L. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:50:41 +0000

I prefer “to egg up”. Egg it on up, folks!

Echoing everyone else re: “Fun Home” definitely deserves to be on all those lists.

By: Ellen O.

Ellen O. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:50 +0000

Andrew, that’s good to hear (45) Although I think it’s funny that your example is about emotions over sports, which seem highly contrived and safe to be emotional about because they really have so little to do with actual life (unless you participate in them.)

But perhaps it’s more a U.S. straight white man culture thing — not expressing feelings over the day to day disappointments, losses, and resentments. This is what bubbles up into hatred, revenge and violence. Or maybe it has nothing to do with expressing emotions and is all chemical.

By: chriso

chriso — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:05:51 +0000

You’re making these lists because your book is fantastic, pure and simple. I would not have already read it 5 times if it wasn’t!

Also, at beauty school, we became fond of the phrase “woman up” as a way of saying “get tough and make it through this”. This was largely brought into popularity by a pregnant classmate who pointed out how much tougher women have to be to do things like have a baby.

By: j.b.t.

j.b.t. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:27:10 +0000

Yay Soozie!