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The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

By Alison Bechdel
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel is a compelling blend of humour and insight, capturing the lives and relationships of a diverse group of lesbian friends. Set against the backdrop of pressing social and political issues, the characters navigate their personal and professional worlds, offering a sharp and engaging reflection on contemporary life. Through its episodic storytelling, the book provides a warm yet incisive look at community, identity, and societal change.
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This collection could appeal to you if you’re drawn to insightful and often humorous reflections on lesbian life, relationships, and politics, with sharply observed introspections. Alison Bechdel’s astute commentary on contemporary social issues, combined with her unique storytelling, offers both entertainment and a thoughtful look into the LGBTQ+ community's experiences.

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The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

Offers 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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Book Details

INFORMATION

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

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 416

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Alison Bechdel Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Penguin Books

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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