American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar

The inspiration for the award-winning movie<BR>from HBO Films and Fine Line Features <BR>AMERICAN SPLENDOR<BR>The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar <BR>Two classic comic anthologies in one volume <BR>Stories by Harvey Pekar <BR>Introduction by R. Crumb <BR>Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray <BR>The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie "American "Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival <BR>"American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them--he is himself. <BR>"Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."<BR>--"The New York Times <BR>"[Pekar] has a vision that makes daily city life--a ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying bread--dramatic."<BR>--"Chicago Sun-Times <BR>"Simply stated, "American Splendor is the most superb literary endeavor to come off the streets of Cleveland in decades."<BR>--"The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) <BR>"Mr. Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand."<BR>--"The New York Times Book Review <BR>

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