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GAY PEOPle's ChroNICLE

AUGUST 1, 1997

Dykes Towatch Out For by Alison Bechdel

IT'S THE EVENTO' THE SEASON!

BLUE PARTY

1997 BY AUSON BECHDEL

UH..I'LL GO PUT

THIS ON A

PLATE.

CAN'T WE DISCUSS THIS LIKE ADULTS? YOU ALWAYS GET SO EMOTIONAL!

YOU'RE GOING TO GINGER'S PARTY? ... YEAH, I KNOW IT'S A BIG DEAL SHE FINALLY GOT HER DOCTORATE. I MEAN, I WAS INVITED TOO, BUT I TOLD SPARROW WE ALREADY HAD PLANS. I'M MAKING MY SPECIAL MUNG BEAN GUMBO!

I THINK YOU'D BETTER

LEAVE RIGHT NOW!

WELL, WHY DON'T GINGER AND I PICK YOU UP? THAT WAY WE'LL SEE EACH OTHER AND GO TO THE PARTY! KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.

JUNE! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

BOSTON.

SHH!

SUCH A ROMANTIC.

MEANWHILE...

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WHILE YOU'RE OFF IN BOSTON AT BUSINESS SCHOOL? SIT HOME KHIFTING YOU POWER TIES?

WHAT'S GOING

SNIFF! I'M SORRY, GINGER!

YOU'RE NOT STILL MAD, ARE YOU? I'LL EAT YOUR GUMBO LATER!

I DON'T THINK So.

ON IN HERE?

WELL... I DUNNO. MAYBE WE SHOULD TAKE A BREAK. SEE OTHER PEOPLE

FOR A WHILE.

WHAT?

IT'S A TWO YEAR PROGRAM. I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO JUST WAIT AROUND.

CHOP

URF.

www.visi.com/~oprairie/

HI! I PICKED

SWEETIE,

UP THE CAKE SOB! TM JUST

NEED HELP WITH DINNER?

THINKING OF YOU!

OH, SPARROW! DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE FOOD!

THE IMPORTANT THING

IS SHARING THIS... UN.....

HAPPY MOMENT WITH ALL OF YOU!

MAYBE FOR APPETIZERS WE SHOULD HAVE

BAW! SOME OF THESE NEW

ANTIDEPRESSANTS I'M TAKING.

"CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIRE. MENT? LOIS, THIS ISN'T THE CAKE I ORDERED

كلات التاون الملاك

UH... THERE'S A SMALL PROBLEM WITH DANNER

SHIK

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

The

Gay Man's Guide

to

ALL YOUR RELATIONSHIPS (Part 1)

SISTERS are your dearest friends. The ones with whom you share history, humiliations and hotel rooms. Sisters are who you couldn't live without. Sisters are who you imagine bawling at your funeral.

AW JEEZ Buck

DON'T

CRY..

Buck?

...huh... NOT MUCH OF A TURNOUT

by Eric Orner

OLD TRICKS are the guys you said you'd hook up with again, but didn't. Old Tricks can be gracious, "It was fun,” or pissy.

GRACIOUS

E

HEY

ELTON!

IT'S ETHAN ACTUALLY AND TELL YOU SO, IF I WAS INCLINED TO TALK You

AT ALL, WHICH I'M NOT CUZ YOU NEVER CALD SP ME SLAN

PISSY

CURRENT TRICKS are who you rush home to check for messages from. Current Tricks are the subject of Sisterly indulgence and Old Trick Fury.

CROSSED

FINGERS

COMINCL

SO TOM, GIMME a

CALL. SOMETIME...

YEA... OK...

GUY LAYING CARPET AT YOUR WORK

YOUR PHONE NUMBER

GIRLFRIENDS are straight women that you met in college and never stopped adoring.

ETHAN-

IF YOU & DOUG WERE A STRAIGHT COUPLE, YOU'D PLAN A WEDDING, GET MAR ried AND HAVE BABIES. BUT YOU'RE NOT, SO, I THINK IT'S TIME THE TWO OF YOU BUY A House...

SOULMATES are the people who your body talks your mind into believing share all sorts of cosmic connections with you, when in fact they're just people your body wants to sleep with.

OH

YOU AND TOM HAVE LOTS OF COMMON

INTERESTS... LOTS!

WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, ...CARPET...

YEAH BA WE DO, DON'T WE? SAY, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY SOME OF THOSE COMMON INTERESTS ARE AGAIN?

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