American - Cartoonist | September 10, 1960 -
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
Alison Bechdel
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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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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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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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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.
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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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