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Harvey Pekar Quotes


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.

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.

Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.

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

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

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.

Plays have been made of my comics.

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.

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.