#ted

I'm a woman who likes to be courted - strongly. ↗

— Katy Perry

#i #likes #strongly #who #woman

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. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going

That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#any #around #because #before #get

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. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comedians #comics #could #doing #i

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#curb #enthusiasm #home #larry #like

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#feel #feel good #good #know #like

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. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#autobiography #early #going #i #journal

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comic #comic books #i #i think #interested

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comic #comic book #doing #great #great opportunity

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#been #collected #comics #familiar #got