“Jezanna: Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chain store jobs!”

— Alison Bechdel , book Dykes to Watch Out For

#431, "Fight or Flight?" (2004), collected in Invasion of the DTWOF (2005).
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American cartoonist, author 1960

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