Harvey Pekar Quotes

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

I love print comics.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.

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

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.

I read comics because of the art.

I think that comic books have appealed to female readers for years.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

I just love the comics industry.