Alison Bechdel

“Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.”

“Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.”

“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.”

“I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.”

“The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.”

“Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.”