Dykes To Watch Out For

That’s the title of a comic strip that Alison Bechdel has been doing, oh for ever, it seems. Actually, it began back in 1983 and has been delighting its audience ever since. Now she’s brought out a compedium: The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For. It’s gone straight on my "to read" list. The New York Times gives it a glowing review, even Alison is taken aback.

 

And if you haven’t read Fun Home, her brilliant, morbidly funny and disturbing memoir of growing up in the family’s funeral home business, then you should really track down a copy. It’s better than Six Feet Under.