Harvey Pekar Quotes

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
Harvey Pekar

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

Same, Write, Common

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

Keep, American, Started

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 virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
Harvey Pekar

Daily, Happen, Matter

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.
Harvey Pekar

Different, Else, Everybody

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
Harvey Pekar

American, Splendor, Squalor

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
Harvey Pekar

Work, Try, Continue

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

Around, Tell, Started

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes.
Harvey Pekar

Mind, Sometimes, Show

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

Wife, Off, Write

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.
Harvey Pekar

History, Whether, Written

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

Mad, While, Step

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.
Harvey Pekar

Far, Realize, Potential

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Harvey Pekar

Work, Read, Books

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
Harvey Pekar

Great, Find, Literature

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

Work, Great, Book

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.
Harvey Pekar

Happen, Try, Write

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 a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.
Harvey Pekar

Morning, Before, Put

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

Thought, Fashion, Write

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

School, After, High

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.
Harvey Pekar

Place, Guy, Sit

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.
Harvey Pekar

Nervous, Prove, Hospital

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
Harvey Pekar

Book, Research, Generation

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
Harvey Pekar

Music, Art, Trying

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

Book, Sun, Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 8, 1939

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