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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. Al Capp
Experience Someone Something Institution Learn Educational Any Anyone Place Useful
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary. Al Capp
People Young Sheltered Young People Should Ignored Helped Necessary
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. Al Capp
Today Generation Own Worse My Own Nobody Were Than Listened Just Repulsive Younger Younger Generation Us Ignorant
Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go. Al Hirschfeld
Life Science Make Go Up
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. Alison Bechdel
Black Black And White Hair White Difficult Drawing Render Even Gray Gray Hair
But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. Alison Bechdel
Relationship Book Father About Mostly
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. Alison Bechdel
Me Writing Drawing Some Very Processes Separate Reason
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me. Alison Bechdel
Great Me Confession Know Catholic Because Always Maybe Held Appeal Raised
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. Alison Bechdel
Work Myself Promoting Spirit Entrepreneurial Entrepreneurial Spirit Sort Just Really Hard
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. Alison Bechdel
Kid Superhero Never Stuff Read Really
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. Alison Bechdel
Harriet About Read Spy Times
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. Alison Bechdel
Men Drawing Out Bored About Only Taken Stuff Get Started
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. Alison Bechdel
Girl Weak Perceived Partly Because Being
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. Alison Bechdel
Me Everyone Through Delights Crumb Stuff Psyche Just Root Watching
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Alison Bechdel
Young Books Geared More Adult Towards Up Young Adults Growing Growing Up Starting
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. Alison Bechdel
Strength Family Me You Avenue Worst Worst Thing Physical Someone Something Physical Strength Could Partly Self-Sufficiency Thing Need
It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl. Alison Bechdel
Men Girl Gender Thinking Way Definitely Some About Having More Having Fun Part Know Also Boy How Am Doing Were Than Maybe Just Interesting Interesting Things Fun Things
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. Alison Bechdel
Home School Wait Girl Changing Despised Out Minute Outfits Drew Nancy Read Always Get Clothing Wanted Descriptions Her Thing Last
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. Alison Bechdel
People Important Reading Think Something Finish Know How How Much Author Want Happened Much Really Novel Why Things
In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. Ben Katchor
World Long Strip Papers Color Put Long Tradition True Over Comic Comic Strip Comics Tradition Sell Very America Which Newspapers
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics. Ben Katchor
Me World Books Bookstores Kid Objects Small Like Know Unusual Comic How Comics Came Were Edward Fit Newspaper Really Across Things Early
I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from. Ben Katchor
Music Come Sounds Western Very Where Interested
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks. Ben Katchor
You People Trouble Own Doubt Doubting Batteries Would Would-Be Had Like Know Always Clocks Just Dying Public Your Why Watch Watches
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words. Ben Katchor
Art People Words Strong Sometimes Those Responses Know Make Very Just Anything Whether Mean Use Why Things
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different. Ben Katchor
You Remember Cheese Alien Country Smell Every Paper About Touch Could Had Feel Like Piece Exhibit Were Child Soviet Going Soviet Union Different Union Ink
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new. Ben Katchor
Nothing Books Could Cheaply New Make Industry Always Wanted Nothing New Publishing
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