Harvey Pekar Quotes
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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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Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys...
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I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
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My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.
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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 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.
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And no business can possibly equate happy workers community with profit effectiveness. Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
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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
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Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
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I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .
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I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.
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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...
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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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It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
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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...
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I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
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Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?
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Life is about women, gigs, and being creative.
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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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You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
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Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.