Best Harvey Pekar Quotes
- I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose… All
- I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. All
- I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just… Cartoonist
- I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize. Comics
- It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. Afflicted
- As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to… All
- 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… Artist
- Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. Complex
- Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures. Comics
- Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet. Book
- I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life -… Any
- I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have… Another Significant
- Plays have been made of my comics. Been
- I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in… Cheek
- I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not. Agree
- Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. Dissenting
- Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else. Everybody
- I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor. American
- It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start. Establish
- Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well. Along
- My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. Autobiographical
- 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. Artists
- 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.… Big
- There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly. Been
- 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. 80s