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What a fun read! After reading both of Bechdel's graphic memoirs a couple of years ago, I was psyched to read her comic strip. The recent Genius Grant award prompted me to finally get around to it.
What I like most about Bechdel's work is her ability to illustrate macro socio/political things through super relatable domestic scenes. She has a great sense of humor and a highly developed sense of situational irony. Every page of DTWOF fires on all cylinders simultaneously and the juggling act is br ...more
What I like most about Bechdel's work is her ability to illustrate macro socio/political things through super relatable domestic scenes. She has a great sense of humor and a highly developed sense of situational irony. Every page of DTWOF fires on all cylinders simultaneously and the juggling act is br ...more
This volume collects several hundred of the DTWOF comics, covering twenty years' worth of major story arcs. I lost track of DTWOF about four years ago, so it was fun to get reacquainted, even if there were only about two years' worth of material that I hadn't read at the very end of the book. I also felt like it ended a little abruptly, as if the last pages of the book were chosen arbitrarily. Still, those are minor complaints. Bechdel has created a universe populated by characters with complex
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I can't believe I read this whole thing straight through. It's a tiny bit addictive. Oh, I started by flipping through and reading random ones, but I wasn't fooling anybody.
The introduction is the best part, so even if you're a DTWOF veteran....
Sam asked me what I found so interesting about it. On one level it's just a sprawling soap-opera of epic and gay proportions, so as a human being of course I'm drawn to it. Another bit is that I share Bechdel's fascination with queer people and our little ...more
The introduction is the best part, so even if you're a DTWOF veteran....
Sam asked me what I found so interesting about it. On one level it's just a sprawling soap-opera of epic and gay proportions, so as a human being of course I'm drawn to it. Another bit is that I share Bechdel's fascination with queer people and our little ...more
The kind of work you wish you’d discovered years ago. Funny, tender, politically charged. I need the entire collection!
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