Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For

Dykes to Watch Out For #6

by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel's sixth sordid collection, her candid cartoon expose of contemporary lesbian life. Ancient lesbian history is revealed as we flash back to the beginnings of the passions no man could share.

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

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Harper · Rating 5 out of 5]

DTWOF is chicken soup for the quarter life crisis

[Emily]

I loved the novella at the end about how everyone met!

[Valentina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fan total. Es como leer una sitcom ❤️ Me encantan los personajes, su forma de hablar, sus filias, sus fobias y lo llenas de detalles que están todas las viñetas.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the main crews origin story at the end!

[Lex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't normally rate comics as I don't tend to feel strongly about them but oh my gosh this was so good. I laughed out loud so many times and I actually felt an affinity for and understanding of the characters, in a way that I didn't with the earlier DtWOF collections I've tried to read.

My only criticism is that in the origin story at the end, Ginger and young Clarice look exactly the same, to the point where I was getting confused as to what timeline we were in. In the rest of the comics, they don't really look alike, and previously Bechdel drew the characters really diversely (in a way typically not seen in comics) so I don't know why they suddenly had the same exact hairstyle and face shape.

Overall, though, this is definitely my favourite of all the DtWOF collections I've seen so far.

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clarice is so busy with over-work, she’d barely time with Toni. Toni was seeing Gloria with a baby. They were apparently getting together at their apartments. Malika just broke up with Ginger. And Ginger’s had enough. She’s still looking for another girlfriend somewhere. Mo’s gotten herself another girlfriend she met at the book readings in a bookstore she works at. It wasn’t till she found out about from Lois’s reconnaissance. Jezzana’s having problems with her mother with her cancer. Harriet had just found out from her politician girlfriend of an affair. There’s lots you never get enough of. Recommended, of course. And see what happens next.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[row · Rating 5 out of 5]

so good

[Tavia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wrong cover.

[typewriternoises · Rating 5 out of 5]

sometimes you read abt lesbians who have lived ur life in the 80s and you dont feel so alone, nor like your own life that you want for yourself feels as impossible. this is rlly precious to me.

[Rose]

Sadly, so many political/social issues in this book from 1995, are what we are facing today.

[Rachel McCready-Flora · Rating 4 out of 5]

This may seem like really strange reading to some of you. I usually don't read graphic novels or comics (though I really should!), and I'm not a lesbian. I heard about Alison Bechdel via Feminist Frequency, who discusses the Bechdel Test for movies. If you're not familiar, the Bechdel Test has the following three rules:

(1) Does the movie have more than two named, female characters?
(2) Do they talk to each other?
(3) Do they talk to each other about anything other than their relationships with men?

Pretty great, right? Anita Sarkeesian from Feminist Frequency proposed a fourth rule: Do they talk for more than a minute?

Anyways, the Bechdel Test is gold, and I was interested in reading a little Alison Bechdel for myself, and this is what the library had. Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For was an interesting and fun read. The names of the politicians were a bit dated, but it was alarming how current so many of the political movements and questions were (especially considering this book is seventeen years old)! How astonishing and horrific that the very same questions and concerns are still prevalent for the queer community. Yeah, it's (currently) legal for same-sex couples to get married in six states (though these unions may not be recognized in other states), but what else has really changed?

[Julie Rylie · Rating 4 out of 5]

FIRST BOOK READ IN GERMAN, ALL BY MYSELF. I'M AS PROUD AS I COULD EVER POSSIBLY BE.

I love Alison Bechdel once more, and again, and again, and again. I want to read everything she writes.

The comics are awesome, I love her drawing and the characters are something else, I wanna take all those lesbo women and make them my best friends (!) They are so rich, so full of personality. All of them are connected with activism,. feminism, politics, fucking interesting people.

I took this from the library and I'm going to take all the ones they have in there (!)

[HeavyReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't remember this comic collection very clearly. There are so many of these books! I've read so many of them!

[sylas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Swoon.

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

The bonus material here focuses on the origin of all the friendships and the awakening of their identities.