{"product_id":"the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-hardcover","title":"The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e--the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Dykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/em\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Settle 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bechdel 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.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375570944223,"sku":"9780618968800","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QUKyhrolbv9780618968800.webp?v=1789203760","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-essential-dykes-to-watch-out-for-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}