Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel [Paperback]

Alison Bechdel (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bechdel's ( Dykes to Watch Out For ) comics present an idealized community of lesbian friends, lovers and gay activists. This new collection of ``dykes'' follows the politically earnest and neurotic Mo and her affable lover Harriet as they prepare to live together. Their many friends--happily promiscuous Lois; Ginger, the black college professor; Ginger's Asian housemate Sparrow; and lovebirds Clarice and Toni--make appearances through subplots that humorously detail the course of their lives and love affairs. Needless to say, Bechdel's work is politically correct--racially diverse to a fault, her characters routinely spout liberal political platitudes and radical sexual ideology; but her stories combine a gentle humor with a forthright depiction of the complex social issues facing homosexual women. Her drawings are charming, simple and skillfully comic, but the book's real gem is a separate feature, ``Serial Monogamy,'' a very funny, autobiographical examination of the cartoonist's own inability to make a relationship last (``Not only do lesbians have less sex than Hets and Gay men, we break up more often''), something with which heterosexuals can certainly sympathize.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Firebrand Books (February 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563410087
• ISBN-13: 978-1563410086
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ALISON 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."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, one of her strongest works, March 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel (Hardcover)

This book, the pre-quel to Unnatural DTWOF, is hyterical. Mo and her friends go on with life (78-126) and there are several characters who have disappeared in later books, notably Mo's therapist. Highly recommended

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A hyserically funny and real story of lesbians, April 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel (Paperback)

Serial Monogamy is the story of all lesbians. The processing, the search of good loving is a constant in every lesbian life. Or that it seems. Sociologically fabulous.