Harvey Pekar Quotes

• Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

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• Things improved a little bit in the ’80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the ’90s.

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• There hasn’t been enough change in comics to suit me. I don’t know why exactly.

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• The film’s success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn’t had a big impact on my life yet.

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• Plays have been made of my comics.

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• People writing about me have said that I’ve influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

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• People who are readers of fiction aren’t particularly interested in comic books.

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• My work looks like a comic book in form, but it’s not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

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• Letterman… he got his problems. We don’t get along too well.

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• It’s extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I’ve written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they’re friends.

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• 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.

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• It makes you feel good to know that there’s other people afflicted like you.

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• It didn’t take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

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• I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book writers.

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• I’m doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys – Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

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• I’m a guy that likes to sit in one place.

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• I’d been familiar with comics, and I’d collected ’em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn’t much I was interested in.

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• I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I’ll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

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• I try and write the way things happen. I don’t try and fulfill people’s wishes.

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• 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.

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Harvey Pekar (32)

Birth:	8th October, 1939
Death:	12th July, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Writer

About

Harvey Lawrence Pekar was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an American cartoonist and underground comic book writer, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. He wrote several comic books include: American Splendor(with Robert Crumb), Our Cancer Year(with Joyce Brabner), Best of American splendor, Our movie year, The Quitter, Bizarro World, Ego & Hubris, Students for a Democratic Society, The beats, and Cleveland(with Joseph Remnant).

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