Quotes by Alison Bechdel

About Alison Bechdel:

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in film.
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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

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Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Alison Bechdel

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

Alison Bechdel

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women...

Alison Bechdel

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

Alison Bechdel

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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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.

Alison Bechdel

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

Alison Bechdel

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.

Alison Bechdel

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Alison Bechdel

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Alison Bechdel

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

Alison Bechdel

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Alison Bechdel

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Alison Bechdel

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Alison Bechdel

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Alison Bechdel

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

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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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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

Alison Bechdel

Author Bio

  • NameAlison Bechdel
  • DescriptionAmerican cartoonist, author
  • BornOctober 9, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist; Author
  • WorksFun Home; Are You My Mother?
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Lambda Literary Award