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by: Alison Bechdel List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $15.70 You Save: $9.30 (37%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.56973 EAN: 9780618968800 ISBN: 0618968806 Label: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 12, 2008 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Sales Rank: 4873 Studio: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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.' Average Rating:
 Rating: - A brilliant bookYou can run out of superlatives trying to do justice to this compilation, just wonderful ! ...buy it Rating: - Good enough to keep, good enough to give awaySome books you read and pass along; some books you read and keep; the best books are those that you read, keep, and buy copy after copy of to ensure that EVERYONE you know reads them too. You may not have been there all along, grabbing the fortnightly alternative paper from the top of the jukebox and leafing through it to see if a new episode of DTWOF had appeared - reading it with glee whilst ignoring the offer of the strikingly good-looking (YOUR GENDER HERE) to buy you a drink - but ... Read More Rating: - Essential GoodnessAnd there they are on pages 76-77, the first DTWOF strips I ever saw. They were in a student run women's paper in the Fall of 1991, I had just arrived at the university and my life was about to change for the better. Therefore, it's impossible for me to be completely objective when I talk about this strip and its brilliant creator (channeler?), Alison Bechdel. At first I didn't know what to make of the strip - I feel like I walked through my first two decades in a haze because I was not used to a ... Read More Rating: - Brilliant! The latest DTWOF book along with a hefty retrospectiveWhether you've been anxiously awaiting the next installment after Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For, or have lost track of our favorite lesbian heriones and want to get caught up, this is the book for you. Hardcore fans will be delighted to see that we have an entire new book's worth of fresh, unpublished comics to get us up to date. I looked at how many comics each of the previous books has had, and we have an equal amount of new content in this one. But, for only a little bit extra, ... Read More |
