Harvey Pekar Quotes
"I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: People, Wishes)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: School)
"I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place."
- Harvey Pekar
"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Research)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Thought, Artist, Balloons, Fashion, Word)
"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Work, People, Thinking)
"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 are the same."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: People, Prose)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Comedians)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Change, Friends, Light)
"I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Day, Sun, Writers)
"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Art)
"American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: American, Autobiography)
"I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: People, Potential)
"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 what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Artists, Writers)
"I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Wife, Arguments)
"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 kid stuff."
- Harvey Pekar
"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Work, People)
"I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: People, American)
"Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else."
- Harvey Pekar
"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Problems)
"I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Work, People, Books)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Work, Thought, Opportunity)
"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
(Related: Work, Content)
"People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: People, Books, Fiction)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: People, Artists, Writing)
"Plays have been made of my comics."
- Harvey Pekar
"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."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Life, Success, Winning, Film, Newspapers, Prizes)
"There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly."
- Harvey Pekar
(Related: Change)
"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."
- Harvey Pekar