Harvey Pekar Quotes

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it’s American Squalor.

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• Everybody’s like everybody else, and everybody’s different from everybody else.

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• 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.

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Harvey Pekar (32)

Birth:	8th October, 1939
Death:	12th July, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Writer

About

Harvey Lawrence Pekar was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an American cartoonist and underground comic book writer, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. He wrote several comic books include: American Splendor(with Robert Crumb), Our Cancer Year(with Joyce Brabner), Best of American splendor, Our movie year, The Quitter, Bizarro World, Ego & Hubris, Students for a Democratic Society, The beats, and Cleveland(with Joseph Remnant).

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