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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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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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