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 BechdelIt's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison BechdelIโm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
Alison BechdelIt certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.
Alison Bechdel