The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for

While I'm making comics confessions: I'd never read any DtWOF comics before. I loved [b:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 26135825 Fun Home A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1448570249s/26135825.jpg 911368] and [b:Are You My Mother? 11566956 Are You My Mother? Alison Bechdel https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388205192s/11566956.jpg 16507555], and I knew this was a thing, but just...never read it. I was amazed by how fresh and timely a LOT of this still feels, even while still being a really specific time capsule for different eras of the last like 25 years?!Of course there have been some cultural shifts and it's interesting to see how some of the language and norms have shifted over the years, particularly with regard to trans* people. But it's great to see how Bechdel's work evolved with the times. It's amazing how this twice-monthly one-page comic strip had so many well-developed, diverse characters who had truly evolving lives and story arcs! There are a lot of balls in the air throughout the course of the story and there's almost always a payoff. This is the “essential” not the “complete”, and IDK how many individual comics are missing from this? I know they're online but it was nice to just dive into this and read a whole bunch. Also I liked her comic introduction to the collection.ALSO WARNINGS FOR PET DEATHS. TWO OF THEM. wahhh