The Artist's Bookshelf: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Explore the complex relationship between text and image in Alison Bechdel’s new graphic novel Fun Home. Best known as the author/artist of the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Bechdel offers readers a more personal, revealing memoir with this illustrated story that proves just how literary a graphic novel can be. Guest moderated by cartoonist Robert Kirby, author of Curbside and Boy Trouble. Books are available in the Walker Shop and at the Minneapolis Public Library.

For discussion questions and author interviews, visit blogs.walkerart.org/ecp. Presented in partnership with the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library.