Alison Bechdel

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

— Alison Bechdel

#him #i #i love #jules #little

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#kid #never #read #really #stuff

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

— Alison Bechdel

#harriet #i #probably #read #spy

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#bored #drawing #get #i #men

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

— Alison Bechdel

#comics #history #i #illiterate #pretty

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#because #character #give #gray #gray hair

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. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #collections #did #good #had

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

— Alison Bechdel

#father #grew #i #intelligentsia #kind

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

#already #eyes #giving #gracefully #having

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

— Alison Bechdel

#black and white #difficult #drawing #even #gray