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."
