I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
From 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.
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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.
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.
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
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