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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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
Undertaker
Dies
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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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Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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What would happen if we spoke the truth?
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Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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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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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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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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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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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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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
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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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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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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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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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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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