Quotes By Harvey Pekar

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

Plays have been made of my comics.

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 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.

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

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.

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

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.

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.

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