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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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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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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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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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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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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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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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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.
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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
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At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, Mythology and Archetypal Experience, confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
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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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