American - Writer | October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010
Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.
Harvey Pekar
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My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.
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Plays have been made of my comics.
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The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.
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There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
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Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
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I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.
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I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.
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Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.
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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.
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