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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
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Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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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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I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.
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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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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 don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
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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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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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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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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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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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She has given me a way out.
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I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
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I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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