In Alison Bechdel’s new memoir Are You My Mother?, the cartoonist recalls a page from Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book that captured her imagination when she was a little girl. It’s a drawing of a typically Seussian creature, working a typically Seussian machine, inside a Plexiglas dome. Bechdel describes this as a “perfect environment,” and says that she spent a lot of her youth drawing similarly perfect environments, imagining what it would be like to live in a well-stocked bubble, cut off from the rest of the world. Which puts Bechdel in the company of, oh… roughly 100 percent of the people who grew up reading comic books. And probably 90 percent of the people who didn’t.
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