Alison Bechdel Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

“I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”