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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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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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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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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
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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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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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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
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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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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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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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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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She has given me a way out.
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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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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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