I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
It’s real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It’s that quick. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I’d like to see the comics’ style expanded. I’d like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don’t like it when an art form becomes stagnant. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
A respectable-sized audience hasn’t really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the ’60s. Some of them can’t even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can’t get record companies to put out their stuff. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I was sort of on a mission with ‘American Splendor.’ I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
I’m from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what’s important in art. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
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. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
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. Harvey Pekar Read Quote
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. Harvey Pekar Read Quote