The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For – Alison Bechdel (2008)[cbz|jpg|scan][ENG]{Kaefer}

The brilliance ot Dykes to Watch Out For is that Bechdel can suggest such a rich palette of human emotion at the same time she’s prompting laughter at problems that are universal … Bechdel gets the details right.

Funny, irreverent, and fearless.

Once again, one of Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For has put her finger squarely on the Dykegeist. Since 1983, this little comic-strip community has been griping, groping, and gossiping its way through the cultural and political events of our time, from the butch-femme debates to the second coming of Bush; from El Salvador to civil unions; from Reaganomics to postmodernism … Bechdel has created what some aficionados consider to be the permanent cartoon record of modern lesbian-feminist history – and one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.

One of the greatest hits at the twentieth century.

For twenty-five years Alison Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, 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 into 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.
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. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For fuses high and low culture – from foreign policy to domestic routine, postmodern theory to hot sex – in a serial graphic narrative “suitable for humanists of all persuasions.”