{"product_id":"the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-alison-bechdel","title":"The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For: Alison Bechdel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Essential Dykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSettle 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBechdel 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50245481791734,"sku":"9780358424178","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/6819\/6086\/files\/Didyouknow-17_c2eb05f7-602a-40d3-a9c4-56f2de283f63.png?v=1775152514","url":"https:\/\/www.beastlybooks.com\/products\/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-alison-bechdel","provider":"Beastly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}