Author guide
Alison Bechdel Books in Order
Alison Bechdel (born 1960) is an American cartoonist and author. Her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For chronicled lesbian community, politics, and relationships from the 1980s through the 2000s. She is also the author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength, as well as the graphic novel Spent.
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Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The most accessible entry point to Bechdel's major graphic memoirs and themes.
Dykes to Watch Out For
The beginning of the original comic-strip collection series.
Read in order
Books by series
comic-strip-collection · completed
Dykes to Watch Out For
A long-running comic-strip series about lesbian characters, community, politics, and relationships, collected in eleven original volumes published between 1986 and 2005.
- 1 Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗
Book 1 · comic-strip-collection · 1986
- 2
More Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗Book 2 · comic-strip-collection · 1988
- 3
New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗Book 3 · comic-strip-collection · 1990
- 4
Dykes to Watch Out For: The SequelAmazon ↗Book 4 · comic-strip-collection · 1992
- 5
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗Book 5 · comic-strip-collection · 1993
- 6 Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗
Book 6 · comic-strip-collection · 1995
- 7 Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗
Book 7 · comic-strip-collection · 1997
- 8
Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗Book 8 · comic-strip-collection · 1998
- 9
Post-Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗Book 9 · comic-strip-collection · 2000
- 10 Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗
Book 10 · comic-strip-collection · 2003
- 11
Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out ForAmazon ↗Book 11 · comic-strip-collection · 2005
Outside the series
