139 Quotes by Harvey Pekar

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I’ll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

It’s extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I’ve written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they’re friends.

Praise from people I respect can get me through times of no money better than money can get me through times of no praise.

People will believe absurd things – in the 19th century and now.

I’m doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys – Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

I really don’t have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It’s like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

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

I continue to be disappointed that people don’t try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes.