Alison Bechdel author event
Booksmith
talk, slideshow & booksigning for "The Essential Dykes to Watch Out
For"
Monday, November 10 at 7:30 pm
at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco)
"The Essential Dykes to Watch Out" For is the collection Alison
Bechdel fans have been waiting for! Gathering material from 11 earlier
books, as well as 60 new strips never before published in book form,
this new book from the author of the celebrated Fun Home chronicles
the lives, loves, and politics of Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger,
Stuart, Clarice, and others. Don’t miss this special event an author
talk and slideshow with the one-and-only Alison Bechdel.
Alison Bechdel is the author of numerous collections of commix,
including the national bestseller and National Book Critics Circle
Award Finalist "Fun Home" (named Time Magazine’s #1 Book of the Year).
Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in
the fictionalized "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip," one of the
preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre” (Ms.). The strip is syndicated
in 50 alternative newspapers, translated into multiple languages, and
collected into a book series with a quarter of a million copies in
print.
This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644
Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call
415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this
event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book,
please email or phone our store.