-For this weeks blog I figured I would compare Fun Home to a book mentioned in our last class that I had to read last semester, Maus by Art Spiegelman. Both books are photographic narratives and use pictures with small text to tell the reader the story and help them visualize the story.
-Maus, similar to Fun Home has the main character, Artie who is, like Bechdel, the author of the book. In the book he tells his father’s story about Germany and his experiences in the holocaust.
-One thing that is very similar between the two books besides using comics to tell stories is that Artie and his father share an awkward relationship just like Bechdel and her father.
-Facial expressions are used to great lengths in both of these stories and the expressions tell stories on their own. In Fun Home, we see Bechdel’s father using very blank expressions and only once does he crack a smile. In Maus, though the characters have the faces of mice, Artie’s father also has very flat facial expressions, sometimes even seeming depressing.
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