Sunday, December 7, 2008
Books This Week in the Book Section
Posted by Paul Constant on Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:17 PM
This week in the book section, I review Alison Bechdel's Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, and find that the comic strip has turned into something unexpected:
While by no means complete, this is a fairly comprehensive collection of 25 years' worth of Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For comics. Now that Bechdel's success as a memoirist, with Fun Home, has pushed the weekly series off to indefinite hiatus, it seems a particularly meaningful time to reassess the value of the strip. On the book's dust jacket, Bechdel refers to Dykes as "half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel." It's a statement that at once overstates and undersells the comics in this book...
I hope you'll read the whole review.
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