Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekarwas an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a well-received film adaptation of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Artist
Date of Birth8 October 1939
CountryUnited States of America
people valuable
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
comic looks typical work
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
amount art comics dawned forms history limited tremendous
It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.
establish far liked people work
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
motions people work
I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.
book people fiction
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
writing routine want
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.
thinking groups chosen-one
Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. …
writing people literature
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
people feel-good like-you
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
book internet comic
Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
thinking long people
It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
trying aggressive obnoxious
Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.
different
Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.