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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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 secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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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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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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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'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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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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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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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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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 started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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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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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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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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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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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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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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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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