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Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out for

by Alison Bechdel

Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out for Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Change is afoot as the best-selling Dykes to Watch Out Forseries moves to Alyson. Alison Bechdel continues to illuminate the way we live through the comic strip serial that has become a national treasure. In the tenth book in the series, Mo, the curmudgeonly women's bookstore clerk, blithely rants about Dr. Laura, Donald Rumsfeld, gay Enron execs, and the pernicious effects of Frogger, while her cozy counterculture community is shifting beneath her feet. Her job is in jeopardy as Madwimmin Books's customer base defects to the chains. Her ex, Clarice, is displaying symptoms of soccer mom-itis. Her best friend, Lois, has announced her new name is Louis. And her old pal Sparrow considers whether having a baby with her boyfriend will compromise her identity as a radical lesbian feminist. Meanwhile, Toni doesn't know what do when Clarice's George W. Bush-induced depression lasts long after the inauguration and, in the wake of 9-11, her friends square off on questions of idealism, violence, compassion, patriotism, and dissent. As they hash out their ideological differences, a black-and-white world takes on surprisingly variegated shades of gray.

Alison Bechdelis the author of nine previous Dykes to Watch Out Forbooks, three of which have been Lambda Literary Award winners, as was also her autobiography, The Indelible Alison Bechdel. She lives in Vermont.

Synopsis:

Full title: 'Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For'. The tenth book in the bestselling lesbian comic series.

Synopsis:

The groundbreaking, nationally syndicated comic strip celebrates 20 years in print with a tenth collection of strips exploring the lives of its characters in a post millennium, post 9-11 America.

About the Author

Alison Bechdel has been writing and illustrating "Dykes to Watch Out For" since 1982. Her books have won multiple awards, and she was most recently a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award and two Eisner awards. She lives in Vermont and is working on a graphic memoir about her queer father.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781555838287
Author:
Bechdel, Alison
Publisher:
Alyson Books
Location:
Los Angeles
Subject:
General
Subject:
Lesbian Studies
Subject:
Lesbians
Subject:
Graphic Novels
Subject:
General Humor
Subject:
Comics & Cartoons
Subject:
Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
2432
Publication Date:
October 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
154
Dimensions:
5.5 x 8.5 in

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