Controversy

Fun Home, while receiving mostly positive criticism, was subject to a brief battle with censorship. The Marshall Public Library of Missouri, where the book was banned for 5 months. The local community held a townhall meeting in which they decided that the book contained pornographic obscenity, in the depictions of nudity and lesbian acts, and had Fun Home, as well as Craig Thompson's comic Blankets, banned. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the National Coalition Against Censorship aided in the eventual return of the book to the library shelves. When asked about the incident, Bechdel said the banning was "a great honor."

Earlier this year, at the University of Utah, a professor placed Fun Home on the syllabus for their "Critical Introduction to English Literary Forms" course, in which a student petitioned to read a different book, on the basis that Fun Home was pornography. The student, along with a group called "No More Pornography," is currently seeking to have the book removed from the college curriculum altogether. As of now, the university shows no intention to do so.