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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Harvey Pekar
These are some quotes by American author Harvey Pekar Writer, who lived between October 8, 1939 and July 12, 2010.
Quotes by Harvey Pekar
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.
