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"I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor."
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"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."
"I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."
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"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."
"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."
"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff."
"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."
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