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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 could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
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And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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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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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
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Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
Alison Bechdel
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Alison Bechdel
You can't live and write at the same time.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
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