The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for - Paperback

by Alison Bechdel (Author)

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 Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and the rest of the cast of cult-fav characters. Most of them are lesbians, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. Bechdel's 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 Biography

ALISON BECHDEL is the author of the best-selling memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?, and the writer and artist behind thecomic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Bechdel has been the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, was guest editor of The Best American Comics 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, and the New York Times Book Review.