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Alison Bechdel is a famous American feminist cartoonist. The purpose of this study is to analyze her first graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic from the perspectives of literary form, autobiography, and her sexual identity. As a graphic novel, Fun Home shows the power of verbal and visual narrative. Fun Home is an encyclopedic display with photos, maps, and diaries as autobiography. Bechdel explores the father-daughter relationship in Fun Home. She rereads her father(Bruce Bechdel)’s photographs for evidence of his covert homosexuality and understands his unhappiness as a patriarchal father. Bechdel seeks to understand the connections between her father’s life and her own. Although her father’s death was declared an accident, Alison convinced that it was a suicide. She felt guilty because the accident happened right after her coming out. After overcoming the trauma that accompanies her queer identity, Alison can leap into life and accept her homosexuality.