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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Alison Bechdel

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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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The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.
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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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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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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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I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
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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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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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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 suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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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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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
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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 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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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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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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