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All Quotes by author - Harvey Pekar

" 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. "

" Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. "

" I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all. "

" I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions. "

" 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. "

" Misery loves company. There's a lot to that. "

Misery Loves Company

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. "

" You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV. "

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