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I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about...

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Quote by Michael Chabon

How was I to do that? If I wrote about them in the same language that I was using to write about Joe and Sammy, it would give the comics characters the same level of familiarity.

Quote by Michael Chabon about language

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my...

I completely lost interest in comics. I sold my collection. I didn't go back to them for fifteen years - until after Wonder Boys.

Quote by Michael Chabon about miracle, interest

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Quote by Michael Chabon about childhood, self-control, common sense, sense, old, olderness

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and...

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

Quote by Harvey Pekar about work, people

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went...

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.

Quote by Harvey Pekar

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of...

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about humor, people

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do...

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about opinion, art, magic

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when...

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.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about opinion, school

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.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about things

Plays have been made of my comics.

Plays have been made of my comics.

Quote by Harvey Pekar

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I...

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about change

Things improved a little bit in the '80s, there was kind...

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.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about things

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