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" I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older. "
Alison Bechdel
Older
Little
Him
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" Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. "
Alison Bechdel
Girl
Perceived
Weak
" Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks. "
Alison Bechdel
Always
School
Wait
" But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. "
Alison Bechdel
Comic
Like
Things
" I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. "
Alison Bechdel
Always
Me
Know
" The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. "
Alison Bechdel
Bigger
Childhood
Influence
" When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. "
Alison Bechdel
Growing
Young
Up
" But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. "
Alison Bechdel
Book
Relationship
About
" Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. "
Alison Bechdel
Know
Trying
Always
" Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. "
Alison Bechdel
Wish
Writing
Drawing
" 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. "
Alison Bechdel
People
Change
Hope
" My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. "
Alison Bechdel
Mother
Father
Kind
" 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. "
Alison Bechdel
Live
Reason
She
" For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. "
Alison Bechdel
Drawing
Writing
Reason
" 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. "
Alison Bechdel
Family
Need
Someone
" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "
Alison Bechdel
Age
Character
Someone
" I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. "
Alison Bechdel
Myself
Work
Spirit
" One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. "
Alison Bechdel
Trying
Some
Giving
" I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. "
Alison Bechdel
Times
About
Spy
" Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. "
Alison Bechdel
Like
Yeah
Anyhow
" I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. "
Alison Bechdel
Never
Kid
Really
" Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. "
Alison Bechdel
Me
Everyone
Watching
" Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. "
Alison Bechdel
Hair
Black
Drawing
" I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. "
Alison Bechdel
Illiterate
History
Pretty
" Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. "
Alison Bechdel
Them
Comics
I Love