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Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF) was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel.The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one".
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Jul 14, 2017 · Alison Bechdel is one of the few cartoonists who appears twice on our list of 100 favorite comics and graphic novels — but many readers overlooked her beloved cult strip Dykes To Watch Out For.
The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For. The Bechdel test (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl), also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction. The test asks whether a work features at least two female characters who ...
ALISON BECHDEL'S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR IS A TIMELESS CELEBRATION OF LESBIAN FRIENDSHIPS I have a vivid memory of the first time I met the characters in Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. I was in grad school at the George Washington University taking a Lesbian History and Culture class with Dr. Bonnie J. Morris—an iconic dyke to watch ...
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father.
Alison Bechdel ( Lock Haven, 10 de setembro de 1960) é uma cartunista americana famosa por suas histórias em quadrinhos autobiográficas. Seu primeiro trabalho a chamar a atenção da crítica foi a série de tirinhas Dykes to Watch Out For, produzidas ao longo de 25 anos, entre 1983 e 2008 [ 2]. São tirinhas disruptivas por serem publicadas ...
