Quote

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Alison Bechdel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Read
Stuff
Kids
Really
Never
Superhero

More quotes by Alison Bechdel

Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
Alison Bechdel
Image
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Alison Bechdel
Image
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Alison Bechdel
Image
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
Alison Bechdel
Image
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.
Alison Bechdel
Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison Bechdel
Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
Alison Bechdel
Image
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
Alison Bechdel
Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
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.
Alison Bechdel
Image
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel
Image
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
Alison Bechdel
Image
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
Alison Bechdel
Image
Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.
Alison Bechdel
Image
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
Alison Bechdel