Looking into Pictures

       With Fun Home being a graphic novel its impossible to not take substance away from the pictures. Bechdel decided to do the story of her childhood into adult life in picture form so that as readers we could be more enchanced in her story. Having the visual element helped me understand the horrors of all the times having to clean that giant marvalous house. When she spoke of her fathers quiet exterior, I see even in cartoons that his describution matches. Another reason why I think it being a graphic novel was benifical to Bechdel is because it created a flow in the text. Which without the picture element the text would be all over the place and we would be unaware if it was a flashback or current time.
       Something that puzzles me is if Bechdel thought the cartoon image of herself was a close resembalence. When I look on the back cover of the picture of Bechdel I feel as though she looks oddly remarkable like her cartoon. The sad eyes and the short hair cut are two similarities. But I have a feeling that the glasses were just left out so that the lens didn't consume the entire comic strip.
        Now that I have finished the novel I have learned the way in which Bechdel setup her texts around the comic strip. The text that is above the cartoons in Bechdel setting up the time and setting of the image. When theres bubble text its what the characters are saying aloud. When the bubble text has an arrow at the bottom when the text is in quotes that means that she is setting up whats going on in the scene. Like in (Page 225) "Heart and Soul" is the song in which Alison and her father are playing on the piano. And the way in which she describes her thoughts varies around the images. Having been my first graphic novel learning the way in which the text and images are both utilized is an important task for me.