Fun Home at Pandagon book club
Amanda Marcotte’s review of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home at Pandagon is excellent. Marcotte’s perceptiveness is fully revealed in this passage:
The book is thick with themes and tangents, like most good novels, which is all the more remarkable if you consider the economy of language that’s a function of the comic book form. It’s probably not easy to get to the point where you’re telling more story with the juxtaposition of words and images than you could tell simply by filling the page with words, but Bechdel at this point is a master of the form.
Bechdel is indeed a master, as those of us who have admired her “Dykes to Watch Out For” series will eagerly proclaim. Her work has the depth and multilayered meanings that are the hallmarks of fully-realized creative efforts; it has been a joy seeing Fun Home bring her incredible talents some long-overdue recognition.
The comments thread is quite nice as well.