Before she was an Award winning cartoonist and creator of. 'The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For' on sale now. For this first time, this collection gathers the best of those volumes. The Award winning cartoonist of 'Fun Home,' Alison Bechdel talks to CBR about the collection of her long-running comics strip,'Dykes To Watch Out For,' and her upcoming memoir and other projects. The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For fuses high and low culture - from foreign domestic policy to domestic routine, postmodern theory to hot sex - in a serial graphic narrative 'suitable for all humanist persuasions'.Īlison Bechdel has been chronicling the lives of a small universe of cartoon characters in her strip Dykes To Watch Out For, which has been syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers in the USA and has been published in eleven volumes. 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.īechdel 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.”īechdel 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.Internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America in this comic strip collection.īechdel's brilliantly imagined counter-cultural band of friends - academics, social workers, booksellers - fall in and out of love, negotiate relationships, raise children, switch careers and cope with aging parents.
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. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for a book by Alison Bechdel 24,731,589.80 raised for local bookstores The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for Alison Bechdel (Author) FORMAT Paperback 18.99 17.66 Hardcover 25.00 23. 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. Alison Bechdel: Alison Bechdel: 9780224087063: : Books Skip to main content. From the author of Fun Home-the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and othersįor 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. Alison Bechdel The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For.
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