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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for Hardcover - 2008
by Alison Bechdel
For 25 years Bechdel's path-breaking "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, syndicated in alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. This collection gathers 60 of the newest strips.
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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.”
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.”
Details
- Title The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
- Author Alison Bechdel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, Massachusetts
- Date 2008-11-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618968800 / 0618968806
- Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 8.16 x 1.24 in (24.13 x 20.73 x 3.15 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Gender/Sexuality Studies
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Library of Congress subjects Lesbians, Graphic novels
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008036784
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.569
Media reviews
"This weighty and winning volume could well be titled 'Alison Bechdel's Greatest Hits.' It features faves from 11 past collections, as well as recent strips, and underscores why Bechel is at the forefront of the growing graphic movement." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Citations
- Booklist, 11/01/2008, Page 32
- Library Journal Annex, 06/08/2009, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/15/2008, Page 44
- New York Times Book Review, 12/07/2008, Page 31
- Publishers Weekly, 11/17/2008, Page 48
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