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You can't live and write at the same time.

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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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 love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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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 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.
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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.
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