Items6The creator’s order
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008)Published Jan 1, 2008The strip came first, and it is the best follow-up to Fun Home if you want laughter rather than grief. Dykes to Watch Out For ran from 1983 to 2008 as a serialized ensemble comedy about Mo Testa, a politically committed lesbian feminist with a tendency to kvetch, and her circle of friends and…0 - 2
The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For (1998)Published Jan 1, 1998The missing link between the strip and the memoirs, for readers who want everything. This 1998 Firebrand paperback gathers childhood drawings, autobiographical stories, collaborations with other cartoonists, strips that never ran in the series and old calendar art.
The autobiographical pieces are…0 - 3
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)Published Jan 1, 2006The one you already know, here for its place in the sequence. Published in 2006 after seven years of work, it circles Bechdel's father, Bruce, a funeral director and high school English teacher in Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, returning to the same events from new angles instead of telling them in…0 - 4
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012)Published Jan 1, 2012Fun Home's companion, and the most demanding book here. Published in 2012, it turns from her father to her mother, an amateur actor in an unhappy marriage, and works through that relationship by way of Bechdel's own therapy, the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott's ideas about the true and false self,…0 - 5
The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021)Published Jan 1, 2021Bechdel's most physical book, colored with her partner Holly Rae Taylor. Published in 2021, it moves chronologically from the 1960s to the 2020 pandemic through her running, karate and a long parade of exhausting workout crazes, and sets her search for fitness beside writers who chased inner…0 - 6
Spent (2025)Published Jan 1, 2025The lightest and funniest place to finish, and a reunion if you read the strip first. Published in May 2025, this comic novel stars a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel who runs a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont with her partner, Holly, while a hit TV series adapted from her memoir about her father…0