The same characters are shown addressing the eight-year gap and responding to the election of Donald Trump. On November 23, 2016, Bechdel broke the strip's hiatus with an episode called “Pièce de Résistance”. On May 10, 2008, Bechdel announced that she was putting the strip on indefinite hiatus in order to complete her graphic novel memoir Love Life, which was eventually published in 2012 as Are You My Mother?. It introduced the Bechdel test, a set of criteria for determining gender bias in works of entertainment, that has since found broad application. The strip was one of the most successful and longest-running queer comic strips. Characters reacted to contemporary events, including going to the Michigan Womyn's Festival, Gay Pride parades and protest marches, and having heated discussions about day-to-day events, political issues and the way lesbian culture was changing. Īccording to Bechdel, her strip was "half op-ed column and half endless, serialized Victorian novel". The first illustrated book edition was published by Firebrand Books in 1986. The strip was carried in Funny Times and syndicated to a number of gay and lesbian newspapers, and also posted on the web. Overview ĭTWOF chronicled the lives, loves, and politics of a fairly diverse group of characters (most of them lesbians) living in a medium-sized city in the United States, featuring both humorous soap opera storylines and biting topical commentary. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one". 'So much more than a comic strip.Alison Bechdel, author of Dykes to Watch Out Forĭykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF) was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel. For this first time, this collection gathers the best of those volumes. The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For fuses high and low culture - from foreign domestic policy to domestic routine, postmodern theory to hot sex - in a serial graphic narrative 'suitable for all humanist persuasions'.Īlison Bechdel has been chronicling the lives of a small universe of cartoon characters in her strip Dykes To Watch Out For, which has been syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers in the USA and has been published in eleven volumes. Internationally-acclaimed graphic-literary talent Alison Bechdel offers acerbically funny insight into the lesbian culture of 1980s America in this comic strip collection.īechdel's brilliantly imagined counter-cultural band of friends - academics, social workers, booksellers - fall in and out of love, negotiate relationships, raise children, switch careers and cope with aging parents.
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