NMLP P-001209 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

Alison Bechdel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston) · 2008

The strips were first self-syndicated and earlier gathered in Firebrand Books collections (1980s into the 2000s), which are the true first appearances; this 2008 Houghton Mifflin volume is the first edition of this best-of compilation, a first thus. The US Houghton Mifflin edition (November 2008) precedes the UK Jonathan Cape edition (ISBN 978-0-224-08706-3, December 2008), so the US printing is the true first of this collection.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-001209 for "The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For" by Alison Bechdel (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-001209, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).