Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for: Cartoons [Paperback]

Alison Bechdel (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bechdel returns with her lovably P.C. lesbian community, in her fifth collection of stories chronicling the lives and loves of the staff at Madwimmin Bookshop. Bookstore staff includes "sex-positive" Lois; bookstore owner Jezanna; wheelchair-bound Thea; and Mo, political grouch in residence. Mo's lover, Harriet, wants to break up and Mo is not taking it well. Yuppie lesbians Toni and Clarice have decided to have a child by artificial insemination. Bechdel's story takes us through their parenting adventure in amusing sequences dealing with frozen-sperm deliveries, breaking the news to parents (or, in Toni's case, pretending there's a father) and the shock of baby-support groups--all subtly illuminating the problems that same-sex couples must face to have children. Bechdel handles Toni's labor and birth (a first for a syndicated comic strip?) with tasteful detail, humor and just the right amount of sentiment. Her black-and-white drawings are charming, carefully conceived and briskly comic.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Firebrand Books (October 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563410397
• ISBN-13: 978-1563410390
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,450,837 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 One of my favorite DTWOF books, July 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for (Hardcover)

I loved reading this book while I was going through my first pregnancy, even though mine was achieved in a more orthodox manner than Toni's :-) I hope my next time goes as smoothly as Rafael's birth. I think this book had a very accurate and suspenseful portrayal of pregnancy, and Clarice's stress was not stereotyped as the classic "nervous father"

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it now!, May 28, 1996

By A Customer

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

This latest version of "Dykes" delivers good artwork, postmodern lesbians, and chosen family relations
like no one else in the business.

A book you will read again and again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it., August 18, 2002

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Annie Blue (San Anselmo, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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

Excellent and beautiful representation of natural birth at the end of the the book. Just as entertaining and stimulating as the rest of her books. Bought it a year ago and still read it over every month or two.