“It’s compulsive behavior, writing a graphic novel. You’re not only sitting at your computer and writing, then you’re hunched over your drawing board like a monk.

“Who would do that?”

Alison Bechdel [Entertainment Weekly, June 9 2006]
photo from her site: dykestowatchoutfor.com

her book: Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic

> related article: In Praise of Positive Obsessions – by Eric Maisel, PhD
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Alison Bechdel, writing graphic novels, creative obsession, positive compulsions

10.25.06 |

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