Saturday, September 27, 2008

Fun Home ch 1+2

Fun home is crazy cool. I read it last night after dinner, but before I did, I was convinced that I wasn't going to like it. Guess i was wrong! I really like how she starts out. She shows right off the bat that there's something quirky going on with her and her dad. I mean on the first page, 3rd block, she describes the game of "airplane" that they play together and you can see his face: Unemotional, blank. You'd think that the father would be smiling, laughing or at least showing some sort of emotion but he's blank. It's something small and you might just think it was an error on the authors part, until they get to the end of their game and she says "again!", in which he replies , "get the vacuum cleaner, this rug is filthy". (cold!) Anyways, as the comic goes on, she continues to paint the picture of her father. An unemotional perfectionist with an obsession. His obsession happens to be their house. (architecture, interior/exterior design) It's cool at first but then you start to see just how aggravating he is. You start to see just how much more he cares about the house than his own family. Even others give into it. Like when the mother is playing piano and "Aunt Sue", tells her to keep playing but shes going to show the house off to some friends. Ridiculous!

The relationship between the words and the pictures are kind of a big deal. And by "kind of" i mean "really". Without the pictures, you can't really get a sense of what the characters are like. The author is literally showing the reader just how she wants the characters to be thought of. No room for imagination here! But that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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