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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
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