Harvey Pekar's Profile
Brief about Harvey Pekar: By info that we know Harvey Pekar was born at 1939-10-08. And also Harvey Pekar is American Writer.
Some Harvey Pekar's quotes. Goto "Harvey Pekar's quotation" section for more.My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
Tags: Book, Work, WritePeople who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Tags: Books, Fiction, InterestedPeople 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.
Tags: Artists, Said, WritingSome of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
Tags: General, Opinion, StuffThere hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
Tags: Change, Enough, WhyThings improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
Tags: Bit, Comics, RevivalAs a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
Tags: Daily, Happen, MatterI 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.
Tags: Mad, Step, WhileI 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.
Tags: Morning, Put, SaidI 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.
Tags: Fashion, Thought, WriteI'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.
Tags: After, High, SchoolIt 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.
Tags: Comedians, Influenced, StartedThe 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.
Tags: Life, Nice, SuccessYou 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.
Tags: Humor, Job, WorkingI think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
Tags: Art, ComicsI 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.
Tags: Assuming, Common, WriteAmerican 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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