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Comics Quotes by Harvey Pekar
- I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
- 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…
- 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 think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
- 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…
- I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.
- Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
- Plays have been made of my comics.
- There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
- 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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