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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Autobiographical
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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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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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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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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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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
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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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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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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 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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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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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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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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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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