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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Harvey Pekar
Profession:
Writer
Born:
October 8, 1939
Nationality:
American
Quotes by Harvey Pekar
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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.
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My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
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There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.
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It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
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There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
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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.
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Plays have been made of my comics.
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People 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.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.
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It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.
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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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It didn't 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've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
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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'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.
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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 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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I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.
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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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When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.
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