Actually Quote by Harvey Pekar

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but…

— Raymond Pettibon

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

— Harvey Pekar

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence…

— Neil Gaiman

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman…

— Chris Ware

That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially…

— Ted Rall

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

— Jean Giraud

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.

— Gillian Flynn

I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my…

— Anthony Bourdain

I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and…

— Floyd Norman

I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what…

— Tim Fish

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

— Harvey Pekar

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to…

— Harvey Pekar