Finishing Fun Home

November 26th, 2005

finishing Fun Home
Originally uploaded by Alison Bechdel.

This is Cathy writing, using Alison’s flickr account. I just snapped this photo of her putting the finishing touches on her graphic memoir.

“I’m shading the line art with ink wash,” she explains.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has its own entry on Medusa.com — er, Amazon — though it’s not coming out until next spring. Alison’s hoping to finish work on it in the next week. She’s been slaving over it in her basement for six years now, so this is a real milestone. Alison also wants me to add that she’s unnerved by the premature Amazon link, seeing as how she’s not actually done with the book yet.

She’ll be taking a short break on Wednesday night to do her slideshow presentation at the University of Vermont — 5 p.m. in Memorial Lounge, Waterman. Stop by if yer in town!