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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
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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.
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But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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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.
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The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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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.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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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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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.
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My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
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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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