Quotes By Harvey Pekar

You 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.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

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

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

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.

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.