I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
Alison BechdelI could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
Alison BechdelIt's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison BechdelI suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
Alison Bechdel