Quotes By Harvey Pekar

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

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 think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

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.

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.

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.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

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

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