Books like Hot, throbbing dykes to watch out for by Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel returns with her seventh anthology of comic strips, Hot, throbbing dykes to watch out for. In these humorous panels, Mo, a devoted feminist bookseller, is drawn into a complex mix of attraction and tension when a young, visiting professor of lesbian‑deconstructionist theory appears. Meanwhile, the shop’s monthly fundraiser pivots toward erotica, adding another layer of satire to Bechdel’s incisive take on lesbian culture, activism, and the tensions within a queer community.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Fiction
Authors: Alison Bechdel
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