comedy

At the climactic moment of the final chapter of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Alison and her father Bruce are taking a drive together to watch the 1980 film, Coal Miner’s Daughter (fig. 1). For the first time since she has come out to her family, Alison tries to have a frank conversation with her father about her sexuality—and his. She has recently learned that her father has been sleeping with men for decades. The encounter is tense. Bechdel emphasizes this tension by changing the panel layout of her graphic memoir. Featuring twelv