Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
PLANNING –
- Monotonous color scheme
- Could signify that it is from old times
- Old looking furniture could also signify old times
- Setting
- Father getting resources to provide for his family
- Voice over –
- Giving contest to the scenes
- Speech bubbles
- Backing up voice overs
- Giving more insight to a person’s perspective
- Identifies supposingly father’s though and dedication towards scavenging and decorating
In this page of Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, we see a father providing for his family. The voice is the one of a little girl idolising her father, and giving explanations as to why. The colour of the comic is monotonous, black and white, which could be because it is an old comic, or it could be a way to express that it’s a flashback scene, which corresponds to the past tense of the voice overs. The main voice in the comic is expressed through a voice over of the little girl, and whatever she says is backed up by the image in the corresponding panel. In each panel, the surroundings are drawn in a simple manner, while the father’s features are more detailed, showing importance to him and his character.