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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.
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I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.
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I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
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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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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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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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Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.
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I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
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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.
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