In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, bruce bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which alison and her family r...In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, bruce bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which alison and her family referred to as the it was not until college that alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay.