Harvey Pekar Quotes

Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?'

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

I used to watch every episode of 'Justice League,' I went to all the movies, I had the Superman lunchbox. I was enamored with animation in general and always wanted to somehow be a part of it.

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

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

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'

The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. I grew up in Kansas City. And I walked into a 7-11. I had seen, like, 'The Hulk' TV series. I knew about comic book heroes. I knew about it, but I hadn't actually had a physical comic in my hands until that time. And it was a big deal for me.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

I'm not a comic book guy at all.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.