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

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

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Alison Bechdel

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Alison Bechdel

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.
Alison Bechdel

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
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

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
Alison Bechdel