Dykes To Watch Out For
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Dykes To Watch Out For is a comic strip by Alison Bechdel.
The strip documents the life, loves, and politics of a group of lesbians living in a medium-sized city in the United States, featuring both humorous soap-opera storylines and biting topical commentary. The characters include:
- Mo, the central character, a politically committed lesbian feminist with a tendency to whine;
- Lois, a sex-positive activist, drag king, and housemate to Ginger and Sparrow;
- Ginger, a struggling academic and professor;
- Sparrow, a women's shelter worker and New Ager, currently dealing with a relationship with a man, Stuart, and the arrival of their daughter Jiao Raizel;
- Clarice, a workaholic environmental lawyer, her wife Toni, an accountant and homemaker, and their son Raffi;
- Sydney, an amoral yuppie academic, Mo's girlfriend and recently a breast cancer survivor; and
- Jezanna, manager of the late gay and lesbian bookstore Madwimmin Books, which also employed Mo, Lois and Thea, Jewish lesbian with multiple sclerosis.
According to Bechdel, her strip is "half op-ed column and half endless, serialized Victorian novel". Characters react to the 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 and political issues. The strip is one of the most successful and longest-running Queer comic strips. It has had a number of collections, including:
- Dykes to Watch Out For (1986)
- More Dykes to Watch Out For (1988)
- New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For (1990)
- Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel (1992)
- Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For (1993)
- Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For (1995)
- Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For (1997)
- The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For (1998)
- Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For (1998)
- Post-Dykes to Watch Out For (2000)
- Dykes and Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For (2003)
External link
- The Definitive Website of Dykes To Watch Out For (http://www.dykestowatchoutfor.com/)