Harvey Pekar Quotes

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

With the Internet today, it is possible to do some mixed media things where you can write about an artist and link to a song or video by that artist. But that was unheard of in the years I was at the paper.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.

I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

I am the product of Denny O'Neil in many ways, I carry forth a lot of what Denny instilled in me.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it's exciting.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.

We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.