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Harvey Pekar Quotes
American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. Its an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
American Splendor... thats a satirical name. People who would look at it wouldnt think my life was splendid at all. Theyd think it was kind of funky. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Everybodys like everybody else, and everybodys different from everybody else. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think its American Squalor. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I continue to be disappointed that people dont try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics werent just kid stuff. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I dont write about certain arguments I have with my wife. Id get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I really dont have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. Its like assuming that all people who write prose are the same. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I try and write the way things happen. I dont try and fulfill peoples wishes. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then Ill write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Id been familiar with comics, and Id collected em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasnt much I was interested in. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Im a guy that likes to sit in one place. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Im doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Ive probably had my day in the sun. I think Ive influenced a lot of comic book writers. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
It makes you feel good to know that theres other people afflicted like you. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Its extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what Ive written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if theyre friends. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Letterman... he got his problems. We dont get along too well. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
My work looks like a comic book in form, but its not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
People who are readers of fiction arent particularly interested in comic books. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
People writing about me have said that Ive influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
Plays have been made of my comics. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
The films success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasnt had a big impact on my life yet. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
There hasnt been enough change in comics to suit me. I dont know why exactly. - Harvey Pekar Quotes
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