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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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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Trying
Always
Cranking
Strip
Comic
Working
Keep
Wells
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