Alison Bechdel

Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of Fun Homethe 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 friendsacademics, social workers, bookstore clerksfall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents. Bechdel fuses high and low culturefrom foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theoryin a serial graphic narrative ';suitable for humanists of all persuasions.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547523538
• Artikelnr.: 44757057

Autorenporträt

ALISON BECHDEL's cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. The Secret to Superman Strength is her third graphic memoir.