{"product_id":"the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-hardcover","title":"The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e--the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Dykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eALISON BECHDEL has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten. Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the fictionalized \"Dykes to Watch Out For\" strip, \"one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period\" (Ms.). The strip is syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers, translated into multiple languages, and collected into a book series with a quarter of a million copies in print. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as \"one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.24 x 9.5 x 8.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Triangle Awards (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756820529440,"sku":"9780618968800","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/36406e5d4804abde0efc0267427affd6.webp?v=1780087312","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}