Words matter. These are the best Alison Bechdel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I’ve taken it out of the slideshow.
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
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.
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn’t discover him until I was a little older.
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.
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb’s stuff.
It’s definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don’t know, I’m just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn’t like that, but I read it anyhow.
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
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.
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don’t know why that 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.
I’m pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn’t like fighting at all, so I quit.
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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.
