1. Fun Home is
mixed cartoony and realistic. I like to consider it realistic with a cartoony
twist. I say this because the faces have real details but arennot exactly real
faces. For example, they have mouth/laugh lines but cartoony noses. There is no
question as to who is in the panel as each character is distinctive, but the
faces don't change much expression wise throughout the whole work. There are a
lot of small details in the background of the panels. Details of the (ugly)
furniture, the chandelier and the wallpaper, the father uses in the remodel.
Compared to some of the other works we read in class, like Road To Perdition,
the work is light on shading. It is all done in ink (black and white) except
for the use of a watered down blue/gray color. This highly contrasted the
bright orange color of my copy's cover. It was almost a trick, the cover was so
bright and cheery but the context was heavy.
This style is perfect for the work I think. The narration is very heavy,
if there were anymore colors the pages would be super busy and hard to follow.
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2. I believe it was written as a graphic novel
first to be able to have the heavy narration. With a film, it would be weird to
have a constant narrator looming over every scene. As a novel it could work but
the way the narration does not completely match up with the pictures would make
it difficulty to understand with just description. Secondly, It also lends
itself to being stuck as a graphic novel due to the jumps between her childhood and the adulthood. It also allows
for the jumps back in time between time when she is older. It kinda gets to be
a lot to keep up with. You need to be able to read at your own pace to keep up
with when or when she is. Also, She is battling in her head on whither her dad
killed himself or if it was an accident, it is hard to wage an war with
yourself in another median without seeming a bit off. As a film you would lose
the ability to do the jumps and inner war, and as a novel it would be to
muddled and she would have to say things like "ok now back to when I was
blah blah blah." No one wants to read that.
3. Alison is
our narrator. She tells her story of growing into who she really is as a women
and lesbian. She uses her family, mostly her father's story as she makes her
journey. It is in first person point of view and, as I mentioned, does not
always match up with the pictures exactly. It makes since in context but when
she is looking at her naked girlfriend and quoting (what I assume is) Ulysses,
or looking at her father asking him for money and quoting The Great Gatsby it
can be weird if you happened to just flip to that page to see what the novel
was about.
4. Looking at
a young child, most often you can tell instantly when's the father has been in
charge of dressing them. The outfits normally don't match, color or style wise.
This is one thing that made the third panel on page 15 important to me. Not
behold on to a stereotype but not many men are into fashion, or even the
decorating of a house. Most have no opinion when asked from my experience. So
for the daughter to not care about her neckline and it to be a big deal to her
father is a bit strange. It shows their roles are reversed. Her father is
slightly feminine and she is a little masculine. That is really what the whole
page is trying to show, they are opposites. They are playing each other
roles.
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