Editing Dykes to Watch Out For (section)

== Books ==

=== Strip collections ===

The strip had a number of [https://dykestowatchoutfor.com/dtwof-books/ strip collections], including:
* ''Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1986) (non-serialized comics from 1983-1986)
* ''More Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1988) (strips #1-23, plus "Down to the Skin: A Mildly Erotic Epilogue" and a number of non-serialized comics from 1986-1987)
* ''New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1990) (strips #24-77)
* ''Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel'' (1992) (strips #78-126, plus "Serial Monogamy")
* ''Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1993) (strips #127-170, plus "Flesh & Blood")
* ''Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1995) (strips #171-221, plus "Sentimental Education")
* ''Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1997) (strips #222-263, plus "Sense & Sensibility")
* ''Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1998) (strips #264-297, plus "Demographic Rift")
* ''Post-Dykes to Watch Out For'' (2000) (strips #298-337)
* ''Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For'' (2003) (strips #338-397, plus "Replicants")
* ''Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For'' (2005) (strips #398-457)
* ''The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For'' (2008) (strips #458-527, plus most of the preceding strips and "Cartoonist's Introduction")

The first of these collections contained miscellaneous, individual strips; the serialized story centered around Mo began halfway through the second collection, ''More Dykes to Watch Out For''.

Beginning with the third book Bechdel began including [[graphic novel|graphic]] "[[novella]]s" at the end of each book. Some were flashbacks, such as the tale of how everyone met in ''Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For'', or ''Serial Monogamy'', Bechdel's humorous "documentary" on lesbian relationships, but most have advanced the plot in new and interesting ways, such as Raffi's birth at the end of ''Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For''.

While not a compilation, ''The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For'' (1998) included many of the strips Bechdel published in calendars, a timeline of the strip to date, and a fanciful "tour" of the "factory" where ''Dykes to Watch Out For'' is produced.

''The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For'', published in 2008, compiled most but not all of the strips that had ever been published under the title, along with 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunley |first1=Kathleen |title=Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, Volume 1 |date=2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-39751-6 |page=1005 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnuQBQAAQBAJ&q=Ferro-Grumley%20Award%20dykes%20watch%20out&pg=PA1005 |chapter=Dykes to Watch Out For}}</ref>