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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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I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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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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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.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
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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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I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
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