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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Jules
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Older
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Littles
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You can't live and write at the same time.
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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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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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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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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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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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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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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She has given me a way out.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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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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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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