More Dykes to Watch Out for: Cartoons [Paperback]

Alison Bechdel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Firebrand Books (December 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932379451
• ISBN-13: 978-0932379450
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,259,109 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."

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mo episodes 1-23. Recommended, March 19, 1997

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This review is from: More Dykes to Watch Out for: Cartoons (Paperback)

The Mo tale, episodes 1-23, rounds out this book, which is a transition between the disconnected, but funny, strips of the original "Dykes to Watch Out For", and the saga of Mo. The book contains both, as well as Mo and Harriet's first night together

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite "Soap Opera", August 1, 2000

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E. Richards "Herself" (Alone with my thoughts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Dykes to Watch Out for: Cartoons (Paperback)

This was the second Bechdel book I purchased and it hooked me for life. Her earlier works were bits and commentaries on life, but this one takes a group of characters and builds a web of stories and community. Each character is unique and interesting as a character, something you just don't often see in comics.

For example, although Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" series has some wonderful characters in it, they never change. He took a moment in a child's life, froze it, and riffed on that. Bechdel starts at a time in her characters' lifes, shows a lot of personality within one or two panels, and moves them forward through time. Their characters have an arc and they do change.

These strips are all from a series published as she went along. So, it's all rather Dickensian, isn't it? I wonder sometimes how she decides how things will go. Given that they are published in real time, she has an opportinity to map the character's lives to those of her community and to current events.

I view this as the only "soap opera" worth following.

For those unfamiliar with her work, be advised that the subject matter (certainly in the supplemental bit added to the end of the book) is on the mature side.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just cool comics, August 24, 2002

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huhdragon - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Dykes to Watch Out for: Cartoons (Paperback)

I stumbled across this series and have been delighted ever since. Lots of PC discussion, argument, worry and neuroses. Just plain fun and an interesting look at a different perspective. Well drawn and at times just plain funny.