Quotes by Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Book

Character

Writing

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It’s an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

Never Quit

Ongoing

Splendor

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

Effectiveness

Ideas

Organization

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Facts

Looks

Stories

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Can Do

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Book

Comic

Internet

Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones.

Chosen One

Groups

Thinking

Everybody’s like everybody else, and everybody’s different from everybody else.

Different

I always wanted praise and I always wanted attention; I won’t lie to you. I was a jazz critic and that wasn’t good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, What could I do? I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t act or anything like that. OK, I can write.

Lying

People

Writing

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.

Kids

Stories

Stuff

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Absurd

Aggressive

Argument

Art

Artist

Average

Believe

Book

Can Do

Character

Chosen One

Cleveland

Comedian

Comic

Common

Company

Conflict

Creative

Differences

Different

Doing Me

Effectiveness

Elements

Ems

Facts

Fashion

Feel Good

Fiction

Flawed

Foe

Form

Generations

Gigs

Grateful

Groups

Guy

Havens

Hero

Ideas

Intelligent

Internet

Issues

Jazz

Kenny

Kids

Kind

Letting Go

Life Is

Light

Like You

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Quotes by Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It’s an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones.

Everybody’s like everybody else, and everybody’s different from everybody else.

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.

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