Harvey Pekar Quotes

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

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

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

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

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

I've always been an enormous fan of comic books and anything that captures the real in a surreal environment.

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.

I love print comics.

Manga, as a medium, is very different from cinema. Its creators are free to express themselves with harsh, cruel stories, and they enjoy vast distribution throughout Japan.

Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.