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
flailing fully jazz liked looking modern realized time
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.
level screw wondering work
I want to keep doing as much work as I can, and I want to keep the level high. I'm wondering if something is going to happen to me to screw it up.
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.
over-you conflict pursue
You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
letting-go sweet lying
I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.
organization ideas effectiveness
And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.