Harvey Pekar Quotes

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

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

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

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

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 really, really, really love writing comics.

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.

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

I love print comics.

I love writing comics too much.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

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.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

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