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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

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
Mediums
Drawing
Wish
Sometimes
Writing
Integrated

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