The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780618968800)

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."

Author: Alison Bechdel
ISBN-10: 0618968806
ISBN-13: 9780618968800
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.50h x 8.16w x 1.24d
Award: Triangle Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/15/2008 pg. 44
Booklist 11/01/2008 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2008 pg. 48
New York Times Book Review 12/07/2008 pg. 31
Library Journal Annex 06/08/2009