Harvey Pekar Quotes

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

Comics have always been storyboards.

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

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

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 was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.