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See moreOffers an insight into the lesbian society of 1980s America. This book discusses about a counterculture movement that slowly is embraced by the mainstream.
This long-awaited collection of comic strips by the internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers an acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America.
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This long-awaited collection of comic strips by the internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers an acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America.
Internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America in this comic strip collection.
Bechdel'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. 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'.
Alison 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. For the first time, this collection gathers the best of those volumes.
'So much more than a comic strip... No one comes close to Alison Bechdel' Times
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Alison Bechdel's The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For is praised for its extensive and insightful portrayal of lesbian life through the medium of a long-running comic strip. Celebrated as a unique literary and graphic talent, Bechdel's work is seen as a significant cultural antidote, challenging stereotypes and providing a nuanced narrative of gay women's experiences. Spanning 25 years, it has been lauded for its well-sustained chronicling of a community, offering both compelling stories and social commentary.
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ISBN: 9780224087063
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 December 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Illustration: Throughout
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 204.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 1020g
Pages: 416
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About the Author
Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times and People, among others. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre.' Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and the New York Times Book Review. http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/
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