a b "College of Charleston freshman book questioned". WCIV. Associated Press. July 26, 2013 . Retrieved July 28, 2013. Victory! Fun Home Restored in New Jersey High Schools | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund". February 26, 2019 . Retrieved December 15, 2019. It’s not an easy mix to get right, but Stewart makes this scrapbook approach feel like the most natural thing in the world. There’s a deceptive economy to both her drawings, in which a few short lines evoke an array of emotions, and her prose, which moves with an easy eloquence from “the familiar colours of West Country rain” to “a call that leaves her crumpled and alone in a department store”. The book’s skewering of the art establishment is often very funny, but there’s fury here too, at inequality, misogyny and the barriers put up by established artists and fixers, “all those old men who told me I should paint portraits of myself naked”. Feeling different and alone in your feelings is inevitable at times for ace (asexual) or aro (aromantic) people with a world that pushes romance and sex as the norm and ignores the other relationships that bond us – like friendship and familial.

a b c d Miller, Nancy K. (March 2007). "The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of the Memoir". PMLA. 122 (2): 543–544. doi: 10.1632/pmla.2007.122.2.537. ISSN 0030-8129. S2CID 163034462. Harper, Rachel (January 25, 2007). "Library board ready to approve new materials selection policy". The Marshall Democrat-News. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016 . Retrieved January 26, 2007. In January 2022, the Wentzille school board in Missouri voted 4–3 to ban Fun Home, going against the review committee's 8–1 vote to retain the book in the district's libraries. [150] The ban included three other books, as well: George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy. [150] 2022: Rapid City, South Dakota [ edit ] So, reading Rebecca Burgess’s colourful memoir, and other recent novels like Alice Oseman’s Loveless, can certainly help with that feeling even if many of us wish they existed while we were in school.Borden, Jeremy (May 13, 2014). "S.C. Senate votes to fund teaching U.S. Constitution as compromise on book cuts at College of Charleston". The Post and Courier. Charleston, SC: Evening Post Industries . Retrieved May 15, 2014. a b c d e f Harrison, Margot (May 31, 2006). "Life Drawing". Seven Days. Archived from the original on August 11, 2007 . Retrieved August 7, 2007. a b Piepmeier, Alison (May 12, 2014). "Flawed compromise emerges in Fun Home controversy". Charleston City Paper . Retrieved August 11, 2021. Winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced". Lambda Literary. June 3, 2014 . Retrieved March 8, 2016. Gustines, George Gene (September 25, 2019). "Harvey Awards Hall of Fame to Induct New Members". The New York Times . Retrieved November 27, 2019.

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter blossoms in bohemian 1970s London. a b Harper, Rachel (March 15, 2007). "Library board approves new policy/Material selection policy created, controversial books returned to shelves". The Marshall Democrat-News. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 . Retrieved March 15, 2007.There is, she says, a lot more to be said about the whole experience, and her hope now is to make A Funeral in Fr eiburg the beginning of a full length novel: “After someone dies, there’s so much bad behaviour, however good people’s intentions. It fell to me and my dad to drive to Germany to remove everything from my grandmother’s flat and distribute it to her family – and either everyone wanted something, or no one did.” Animation and the writing of a graphic novel are, she thinks, pretty similar in that they’re both extremely labour intensive. “But this is the first piece I’ve made that is truly personal,” she says. It captures something that is quite complicated: the territory that lies between a secular upbringing and a Jewish identity, and how the two might (or might not, in the case of A Funeral in Fr eiburg) fit together. Getlin, Josh (January 21, 2007). "Book Critics Circle nominees declared". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original (free abstract of paid archive) on October 1, 2007 . Retrieved January 22, 2007.