Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For

Alison Bechdel

Toni and Clarice are having a baby, and Alison Bechdel the lesbian community’s premier visual archivist/gossip columnist is right there to record the blessed event. Spawn Of Dykes To Watch Out For, the fifth cartoon collection by the well-loved chronicler of contemporary lesbian life and times , takes us from talking about doing it to the stork’s eventual arrival.

Of particular note is the long sequence created just for reader of Spawn Of Dykes To Watch Out For the birth itself. Where babies come from may never look the same again.

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From Publishers Weekly

Bechdel returns with her lovably P.C. lesbian community, in her fifth collection of stories chronicling the lives and loves of the staff at Madwimmin Bookshop. Bookstore staff includes ‘sex-positive’ Lois; bookstore owner Jezanna; wheelchair-bound Thea; and Mo, political grouch in residence. Mo’s lover, Harriet, wants to break up and Mo is not taking it well. Yuppie lesbians Toni and Clarice have decided to have a child by artificial insemination. Bechdel’s story takes us through their parenting adventure in amusing sequences dealing with frozen-sperm deliveries, breaking the news to parents (or, in Toni’s case, pretending there’s a father) and the shock of baby-support groups–all subtly illuminating the problems that same-sex couples must face to have children. Bechdel handles Toni’s labor and birth (a first for a syndicated comic strip?) with tasteful detail, humor and just the right amount of sentiment. Her black-and-white drawings are charming, carefully conceived and briskly comic.

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Details

ISBN	1563410397
Genre	Graphic Novel
Copyright Date	1993
Publication Date	Oct-93
Publisher	Lpc-Firebrand Books
Format	Softcover
No. of Pages	132
Series	Dykes to Watch Out For
# in Series	5
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
BookID	12262

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Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel