Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel : Added Attraction! "Serial Monogamy"-A Documentary - Hardcover

Bechdel, Alison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563410095 ISBN 13: 9781563410093

Publisher: Firebrand Books, 1992

Synopsis

A collection of cartoons recounting the lives and loves of Mo and Harriet and their diverse group of lesbian friends is accompanied by an autobiographical account of the difficulty of finding a permanent relationship

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Bechdel's ( Dykes to Watch Out For ) comics present an idealized community of lesbian friends, lovers and gay activists. This new collection of ``dykes'' follows the politically earnest and neurotic Mo and her affable lover Harriet as they prepare to live together. Their many friends--happily promiscuous Lois; Ginger, the black college professor; Ginger's Asian housemate Sparrow; and lovebirds Clarice and Toni--make appearances through subplots that humorously detail the course of their lives and love affairs. Needless to say, Bechdel's work is politically correct--racially diverse to a fault, her characters routinely spout liberal political platitudes and radical sexual ideology; but her stories combine a gentle humor with a forthright depiction of the complex social issues facing homosexual women. Her drawings are charming, simple and skillfully comic, but the book's real gem is a separate feature, ``Serial Monogamy,'' a very funny, autobiographical examination of the cartoonist's own inability to make a relationship last (``Not only do lesbians have less sex than Hets and Gay men, we break up more often''), something with which heterosexuals can certainly sympathize.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Firebrand Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1563410095
• ISBN 13: 9781563410093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 133