Fun Home is a memoir of childhood, parents, the motives and mad ghosts of fathers, and how they affect our lives. It's almost tempting to lead with "This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin. 
 Bechdel's father, Bruce Bechdel, was a barely-closeted funeral home director who had an unfortunate taste in teenage boys and a tendency towards literature, interior decoration, and neurosis. Her honesty and frankness in memoir is astonishing and refreshing. How do our parents affect us - or Bechdel, who became a slightly neurotic, frighteningly literate lesbian comic book artist? For us humans, we only have speculation and subjectivity. 
 One of the big problems in autobiographical comic (or many graphic novels in particular) is having too much text clutter up the page, taking away from the visual aspects. Bechdel keeps a fine balance here, with her literary references (from Proust and Fitzgerald to Sesame Street) and psychological musings garnishing the edges, a part of the narrative rather than the whole. 
 I liked the art style, too. It's simple, but distinctive and clean. Bechdel apparently posed for all of the figures in the comic in order to get the basic proportions right, adding a new meaning to immersion. Bechdel posing as the father, as her mother, brothers, her father in the funeral coffin. 
 On to Are You my Mother?