{"product_id":"the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for","title":"The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Fun Home—the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Giovanni's Room","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018736730423,"sku":"9780618968800","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/9780618968800.jpg?v=1756532743","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}