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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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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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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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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.
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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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