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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
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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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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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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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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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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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
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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.
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