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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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Thing | Clicks: 155 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Succes | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Plays have been made of my comics.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: People | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 110 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Work | Clicks: 126 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 119 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 120 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 115 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 109 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 131 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 126 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 122 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Event | Clicks: 370 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 113 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Harvey Pekar (1939) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 104 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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