(W/A/CA) Alison Bechdel. For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes* syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers* and translated into many languages. Now* at last* The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends fall in and out of love* negotiate friendships* raise children* switch careers* and cope with aging parents.