" Long before Fun Home (2006)—perhaps the greatest, most consequential graphic memoir since Art Spiegelman's Maus—Alison Bechdel published a comic strip following the entanglements of a group of queer women living in the Midwest. The comics were funny, sexy and very frank—"half op-ed column and half serialized Victorian novel," Bechdel said. It was also a .  .  . ' ( New York Times Book Review, March 25).