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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break. But other than that, I'll always have to work. I always worry about whether my stuff is going to get over. Will they like this, will they like that?
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep doing as much work as I can, and I want to keep the level high. I'm wondering if something is going to happen to me to screw it up.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Balloons
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Comics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plays have been made of my comics.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Misery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020