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