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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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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Pretty
Beauty
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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
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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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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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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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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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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'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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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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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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I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
Alison Bechdel
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Alison Bechdel
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Alison Bechdel
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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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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