Alison Bechdel Quotes

American - Cartoonist | September 10, 1960 -

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

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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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And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

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But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

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But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

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I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

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I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

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