Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel
Added Attraction! ‘Serial Monogamy’ – A Documentary
Alison Bechdel
Bechdel’s ( Dykes to Watch Out For ) comics present an idealized community of lesbian friends, lovers and gay activists. This new collection of “dykes” follows the politically earnest and neurotic Mo and her affable lover Harriet as they prepare to live together. Their many friends–happily promiscuous Lois; Ginger, the black college professor; Ginger’s Asian housemate Sparrow; and lovebirds Clarice and Toni–make appearances through subplots that humorously detail the course of their lives and love affairs. Needless to say, Bechdel’s work is politically correct–racially diverse to a fault, her characters routinely spout liberal political platitudes and radical sexual ideology; but her stories combine a gentle humor with a forthright depiction of the complex social issues facing homosexual women. Her drawings are charming, simple and skillfully comic, but the book’s real gem is a separate feature, “Serial Monogamy,” a very funny, autobiographical examination of the cartoonist’s own inability to make a relationship last (“Not only do lesbians have less sex than Hets and Gay men, we break up more often”), something with which heterosexuals can certainly sympathize.
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| ISBN | 1563410087 |
| Genre | Graphic Novel |
| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | Feb-92 |
| Publisher | Lpc-Firebrand Books |
| Format | Softcover |
| No. of Pages | 133 |
| Series | Dykes to Watch Out For |
| # in Series | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 3365 |
