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  • folkinz: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Novel ‘Fun Home’ to Become a Stage Musical Great talent is converging with playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori adapting Alison Bechdel’s critically lauded graphic novel Fun Home to a stage musical via the Sundance Institute Theater Program. Bechdel created a spot-on microcosm of lesbian life, politics, love and pop culture with her long-running comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” from 1983 – 2008, and while that strip was certainly semi-autobiographical, her graphic novel Fun Home focused on  her upbringing in her home that housed the Bechdel Funeral Home and on her relationship with her father. “My father and I grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town and he was gay and I was gay and he killed himself and I became a lesbian cartoonist,” Bechdel’s character says in Fun Home. This is one of my favorite books (graphic novel) and if you haven’t read it I can’t recommend it enough. 

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    Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Novel ‘Fun Home’ to Become a Stage Musical

    Great talent is converging with playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori adapting Alison Bechdel’s critically lauded graphic novel Fun Home to a stage musical via the Sundance Institute Theater Program.

    Bechdel created a spot-on microcosm of lesbian life, politics, love and pop culture with her long-running comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” from 1983 – 2008, and while that strip was certainly semi-autobiographical, her graphic novel Fun Home focused on  her upbringing in her home that housed the Bechdel Funeral Home and on her relationship with her father.

    “My father and I grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town and he was gay and I was gay and he killed himself and I became a lesbian cartoonist,” Bechdel’s character says in Fun Home.

    This is one of my favorite books (graphic novel) and if you haven’t read it I can’t recommend it enough. 

    Posted on November 9, 2011 via folkinz. with 32 notes

    Source: shewired.com

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      I want to read this sooo bad. I’m a little bit confused how this story will lend itself to a musical, though.
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      Love this GN. Love Jeanine Tesori. CAN’T WAIT!
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