Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For

Dykes to Watch Out For #7

by Alison Bechdel

Throbbing Dykes To Watch Out For is Alison Bechdel's seventh sensuous cartoon collection, her libidinous commentary on the tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through the culture.
While M - our lesbian-feminist everywoman - looks on askance, sexy babe Lois and postmodern femme-top Sydney spearhead the thrust into sex toys and higher sales at Madwimmin Books.
In these days of girls writing erotica about boys, and boys writing erotica about girls (so what's new?), Alison Bechdel exposes her familiar cast of characters carnal mores.

Genres: Comics, Queer, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Humor, LGBT, Lesbian

142 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

Reviews

[CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Obviously this book fucking rocks. It's the sexiest of the DTWOF, if I remember correctly. I can't believe I found it in the thrift store of my small hometown. It's out of print now!

[Strawny · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter bought this whole series and now I'm addicted. It's like the Archies of Lesbian culture. Now I am going to need a TV series to keep it going because I'm about to read the last one!

[ob]

when I get a job I'm going to have such a complete collection of these and actually read them in order

[Rhiannon Rees · Rating 5 out of 5]

wheres my local lesbian owned feminist literature/sex toy store????? wheres my local lesbian watering hole??? someone needs to step up and someone needs to step up now

[Keely Hyslop · Rating 5 out of 5]

After putting it off for years I'm gradually working my way through the Dykes to Watch Out for Series. This one is my favorite so far. In "Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For", Madwimmin Books, the feminist book shop that several of the comic's characters work at is having trouble making ends meet and is threatened with closure. When the whole community rallies around the bookstore to help it raise money to keep it's doors open it's like a big liberal fairy tale. It's a story I've experienced with both a happy ending and a sad one many times before and it's captured realistically and poignantly. This volume also deals with the themes of gay adoption and coming out to Catholic parents. Not sure why I waited so long to read this comic. I am loving it so much. On to the next issue!

[C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

As good as the other collection I had, but this one has what might be the best title for a comic collection EVER.

[cj · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love the characters. and the cartoon sex.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mo, sos medio insoportable pero sabé que te banco. Cuestión de sentirse identificado, supongo.

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sólo he encontrado el número 7 de esto y necesito los demás ya, estoy así !!!!!!!!!!

(Es junio, únicamente se permite lectura gay )

[spoon]

DNF. I really thought it was my time go back and see if I actually care about Alison Bechdel, and turns out I still don't love her work. I just... can't get behind the weird self-obsession of ridiculing your point of view but also not disowning it or interrogating? Like presenting points of view through characters and being like "that is so dumb/annoying/silly. hate that!" but not like actually doing anything more than establishing it as critiqueable? Idk. Own the POV, or grapple with it; do more than present it and mark it as lamentable. B/c you are, at the end of the day, still presenting it which undermines (for me) any attempt to mark it as "bad" or "complicated"... Also I just do. not. care. about all the weird grad school stuff and dissertation writing and academiese language. There's the Fun Home throughline.

I really tried to read this but I just keep thinking about Lynda Barry (just finished the Menopause anthology right before this) and I think I should go get some Lynda Barry. That my tea.

I feel so bad I don't care about this, but I really don't think I do.

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sydney’s zeroing in on Mo. Thea’s worried about Mo, now that Sydney’s eyeballing her. Toni and Clarice worked out the adoption papers with an incompetent lawyer, but she’s trying. Ginger’s pulling out all the stops just to get her dissertation done since she’s been procrastinating many weeks. Lois is on Prozac, and is almost zombified. Toni’s homophobic parents were trying to get her to change her ways. Toni figured her parents had taken leave of their senses. Jezanna is trying mightily to save her bookstore. What else is next? Read and find out. Fun series. Recommended.

[Bryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I forget these exist and then remember again and read another one and enjoy it! I like the characters, I feel for them and laugh with them, and I like the glimpse of the past -- it is so purely of the time it was written, Bechdel was writing in and for her moment, and it is a time I lived through but I was much younger then, so it is interesting to look back on it from my now.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up because the library didn't have Essential Dykes to Watch out For and it didn't disappoint. I am sucked in and have requested ever other DtWOF that the library has!

[Dhwani · Rating 4 out of 5]

I guess the title gives it away, but there's definitely the most action in this book of all the others so far. Very entertaining, definitely unputdownable plotwise.

[row · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love this series and cannot wait to continue

[Tavia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Right cover, wrong format; I have this in paperback as well.

[aina · Rating 5 out of 5]

increibleee, las amo a todas es todo lo q queria <3

[Aja Kogan · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Julie Rylie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So this one is NR. 7 so now I'm following the segment of what I started.

This book is about the struggles they are having to keep the book store open and that Lois came up with the idea of selling dildos and sexual paraphernalia which made a positive money increase to the shop. Ginger finally finished her doctorate; Mo gets in a relationship with Sidney; Clarisse won the adoption of Rafi, Lois decided not to take Prozac anymore.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish these books were easier to find, but I'm glad I tracked down the ones I did. Dykes to Watch Out for is great but it skips too many strips and doesn't have the special story sections from the end of the other volumes. Passed on to Lauren.

[Jodi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up on my trip to NY. I read it on the way home. Of course I started with #7 in a series...

[Kai Sousa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do not own

[sylas · Rating 4 out of 5]

so good. i've read these comics online, but this was my first full book of DTWOF. so brilliant and delicious.

[Wayne Spiceland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally effin' brilliant! If humor could wipe out homophobia, this should be required reading. ONly problem, the Neanderthal's wouldn't get it.

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Traduce el tomo originalmente publicado en inglés como #7.

[emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

oh god these dykes can be hot and throbbing. call me sydney!

[Imogen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got a little bit of shame about this one.