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Alison Bechdel Biography

Alison Bechdel (/ˈbɛkdəl/ BEK-dəl; born September 10, 1960) 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.

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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Death, Effect, Erotic, Kind, Renunciatory, Shame

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

Always Working, Comic, Know, Strip, Trying, Working

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Beautiful, Cathexis, Energy, Falling In Love, Feels, Girl

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Drawing, Reason, Separate, Writing

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Creativity, Fantasy, Impeding, Looks, Wish

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Adults, Book, Books, Geared, Growing Up, Towards

I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.

Fresh, Ideas, Time, Trying, Wake Up, Work

I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.

Humorous, Miss, Reputation, Responsibility, Talking, Work

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

Black, Black And White, Difficult, Drawing, Hair

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

Bigger, Childhood, Ethos, Mad, Satiric

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

Dies, Embalms, Undertaker

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Drama, Parent, Protagonist, Relief, Tragedy, Upstaged

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Expression, Homosexual, Insufficient, Odds, Person, Sex

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Entrepreneurial, Promoting, Sort, Spirit, Work

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.

Despised, Girl, Home, Outfits, School, Wait

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

Beauty, Comics, History, Illiterate, Pretty

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

Different, Fun, Thinking, Though, Time, Writing

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

Country, Easily, Enough, Living, Mean, New York

I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.

Check, Drug, Energy, Kind, Take

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

Drawing, Fun, Hard, Start, Together, Writing

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