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” Most signifintly, however, the range and volume of queer ics appearg right now monstrat how forcefully the reali and tails of gay life n get exprsed and visualized ics. Bechl’s hugely important and popular syndited ic strip Dyk to Watch Out For, which chronicl the everyday liv of a diverse group of mostly gay iends and lovers, began 1983 and ran for twenty-six years; changed ics culture and broar queer culture fively. The film director Lana Wachowski, of the Matrix anchise (and a trans gay woman), wrote recently that although she was a fan of mastream ics as a kid, and later the work of Robert Cmb, “It wasn’t until I disvered Alison Bechl’s Dyk to Watch Out For that I really unrstood what I was lookg for, a queer world wh stori and characters that I uld regnize, that I uld lgh wh and re about.
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