Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

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

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man.

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

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

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.