Pekar begins with, "Yeah, I've had plenty of good days," then dives into the lustrous memory of hearing about the 1948 Cleveland Indians World Series win on his classroom's intercom system. After, he ...

Here’s a phrase you don’t often hear in regard to Harvey Pekar: role model. And yet, it seems an apt description of the iconoclastic comics genius, who was found dead early Monday at age 70 in his ...

'American Splendor' creator Harvey Pekar died in 2010. By Graeme McMillan Two previously unpublished stories from American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar will see the light of day for the first time ...

Harvey Pekar, the Cleveland comic book author who made prickly honesty about everyday life into an artistic credo and whose outward aspect of dour dishevelment masked a passionate, elegant intellect, ...

Harvey Pekar is best-known for the autobiographical comic books he began self-publishing in the 1970s, then illustrated by his friend Robert Crumb. Over the years, Pekar's caustic self-portraits have ...

Harvey Pekar, known for his American Splendor graphic novels that shone a spotlight on the mundane aspects of daily life, died this morning in his Cleveland Heights home. The curmudgeonly writer drew ...

When Pekar, inspired by Crumb's work, wrote his nascent strip in 1972, Crumb illustrated it. Crumb also contributed to Pekar's first full-fledged books, which Pekar started publishing annually in 1976 ...

Harvey Pekar was one of the most important, idiosyncratic, and eccentric writers that the comics medium has ever produced. He ushered in a new age of autobiographical realism to comic books and ...

You wouldn’t know it, to see the free-as-a-bird David Letterman who’s about to spread his wings and fly the Late Show coop as of Wednesday night, but there was a time when Letterman could be vexed by ...

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I’d like to honor divergent traditions and share a couple of thoughts about Harvey Pekar, the comic-book writer, cult celebrity, and jazz lover, who died on July 12 at age 70. Despite his association ...

Harvey Pekar, the Cleveland comic book author who made prickly honesty about everyday life into an artistic credo and whose outward aspect of dour dishevelment masked a passionate, elegant intellect, ...