An Author's Life Comes to Life: Alison Bechdel on Fun Home
Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist of the long-running syndicated strip "Dykes to Watch Out For," never imagined that when she set out to write "Fun Home," her 2006 graphic memoir that literally traces her coming-of-age as a lesbian and the suicide of her closeted gay father, that a full-circle moment would occur when the musical based on her book would premiere to critical acclaim Off-Broadway at the…