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American Splendor is the series that sparked a revolution in comics and brought graphic novels to the attention of post-adolescent readers everywhere. Here is the best of American Splendor and other comics by Harvey Pekar, including never-before-s...

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In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of Clevelan...

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"Huntington, West Virginia 'On the fly' is a work of nonfiction"--T.p. verso.

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In The Beats: A Graphic History , those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists...

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By the late 1960s, America felt like it was teetering on the edge of a vast transformation. Helping push it over that edge was a brigade of young radicals, the Students for a Democratic Society, who were fighting the establishment for peace abroad...

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It has been 35 years since Pulitzer-Prize winner Terkel first documented American workers' hopes and dreams. Now, his masterpiece has been turned into a comic book by Harvey Pekar, author of the award-winning comics series American Splendor. ...

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Meet Harvey Pekar, a true American original. For over 25 years he's been writing comic books about his life, chronicling the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. Working as a hospital file clerk in Cleveland, his dead-on eye fo...

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The release of the hit movie American Splendor raised Harvey Pekar's popularity to an entirely new level, and Titan's tie-in graphic novel was a runaway critical and commercial success. Now comes Our Movie Year, a brand new graphic novel, in which...

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Bizarro is an imperfect clone of Superman, who lives in a world where everything - and everyone - is the opposite of normal. So where else could the world's greatest alternative cartoonists run rampant in an all-new anthology of utterly unhinged s...

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Where else could the world's greatest alternative cartoonists run rampant through the DC Universe in an all-new anthology of utterly unhinged stories and art? It could only happen in the world of Bizarro, Superman's imperfect duplicate! This big s...

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Experience the heartwarming, all-American story of a crank and his comic book...Thanks to the hit American Splendor movie, Harvey Pekar is now known around the world. But how did a former file clerk from Cleveland and up with an Oscar nomination? ...

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Tells the story of the author's teen years. When he failed to impress, whether on the football team, in math class, in the Navy or on the job, he simply gave up! This is a universal tale of a young man's search for himself through the frustrations...

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In this all-new graphic novel, Harvey Pekar - whose award-winning series "American Splendor" became a feted movie - tells the story of his teen years for the first time. When he failed to impress, whether on the football team, in math cl...

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Bob Dylan, John Steinbeck, Robert Altman: Americans who defined through their art the struggles of the common man...yet one name is missing from this list: Cleveland's most famous writer, actor and complainer, the acutely observational Harvey Peka...

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Bob Dylan, John Steinbeck, Robert Altman: Americans who defined through their art the struggles of the common man...yet one name is missing from this list: Cleveland's most famous writer, actor and complainer, the acutely observational Harvey Peka...

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