The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
$44.45
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2008
Summary
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 domest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224087063 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224087061 |
| Author: | Alison Bechdel |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 203mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
So much more than a comic strip… No one comes close to Alison Bechdel
So much more than a comic strip… No one comes close to Alison Bechdel * The Times *
This compendium is testament to a unique literary-graphic talent * The Times *
For 25 years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip has been collected in award-winning volumes. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers an irresistible selection from all 11 volumes * Chicago Tribune *
Ms. Bechdel began her strips… partly to provide “an antidote” to culture’s image of gay women as “warped, sick, humorless and undesirable.” Boy, has she succeeded. Her crazy lesbians seem saner than the rest of us, and beyond beautiful * The New York Times *
The greatest lesbian soap opera… is Bechdels miraculously well-sustained chronicling of a circle of friends over the course of 20 years, Dykes to Watch Out For * Booklist *
Breezy, efficient storytelling and all-round smarts – Bartholomew Bennett * Guardian *
About The Author
Alison Bechdel
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.
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