Bechdel, Alison - Dykes to Watch Out For, #152, No Place Like Home, Dec-11-1992, page 1

Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF) was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel that ran from 1983 to 2008. It was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and chronicled the lives, loves, and politics of a diverse group of characters living in a medium-sized city in the United States (thought to be Minneapolis). It featured both humorous soap opera storylines and biting topical commentary. According to Bechdel, her strip was "half op-ed column and half endless, serialized Victorian novel". The strip was one of the most successful and longest-running queer comic strips with the characters aging in real-time throughout the run.

For those interested, there have been numerous collected editions of DTWOF, but ‘The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For’, published in 2008, compiled most but not all the strips that had ever been published under the title. It included a 12-page introduction in which Bechdel reflected on her time drawing the strip. The book won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction in 2009.

Special thanks to Sean Watkins of Athenaeum Comic Art for helping this great DTWOF example find a home in my collection!