The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

Alison Bechdel

From the author of Fun Home–the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others

For twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a “rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down” (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form.

Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it “half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel”) of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis.

Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends–academics, social workers, bookstore clerks–fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents.

Bechdel fuses high and low culture–from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory–in a serial graphic narrative “suitable for humanists of all persuasions.”


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Details

ISBN 9780618968800
Genre Graphic Novel
Copyright Date 2008
Publication Date 12-Nov-08
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 416
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Comic Books, Strips, Etc. – United States; Lesbians – Comic Books, Strips, Etc
BookID 3604

Author: LFWBooks