The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For in Queereaders

Nov 30, 2010 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: comics, queer

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 ...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Akiva ꙮ rated it really liked it

Shelves: 3-fmt-f-novel, f-queer, 3-fmt-comix, f-activism

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

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Jan 10, 2018 Becca rated it really liked it

Shelves: queer-lit, graphic-novels

I first saw a DTWOF comic in one of the campus newspapers of my hometown growing up. In the years of DTWOF comic strips that followed, I'd occasionally catch one posted online, or in another newspaper, or a few strips in a collection at someone's house. But the comics are intensely serialized (not making much sense as a standalone), the whole archive was never available online and only 527 comics were ever published in the 21 years of the strip, so it always seemed like I was catching a glimpse ...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Ashley rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels, queer-content, adults

So few strips were left out that I wish it had been a complete collection instead of an "essential" one, although the preamble about essentializing the queer women's experience played into the title nicely. I didn't read this strip when it came out--in fact, I disliked it whenever I saw it in the local queer newspaper--but I decided to read it after I fell in love with Bechdel's Fun Home. It was great reading them all in one sitting, because the more dramatic strips actually made sense. I was su ...more

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