I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.' — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
