
Alison Bechdel on Eating and Cartooning
Food with Mark Bittman
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The Bactel Test
The comic strip began in the early 1980s. It was popular with gay and lesbian communities, but it soon died out. He switched to writing books after a surprising cross-over success. "I think that itend to take this kind of stuff for granted," he says.
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