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Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Fell
Grief
Sea
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Daedalus
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Icarus
Stricken
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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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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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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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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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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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The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
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She has given me a way out.
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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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The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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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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You can't live and write at the same time.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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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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