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What's a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival?
The story begins in 1976, when Harvey began publishing his autobiographical, slice-of-downtrodden-life comic book series American Splendor, illustrated by a who's who of underground comic artists, including R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Greg Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray.
After self-publishing American Splendor for nearly two decades under less than splendid conditions (and racking impressive accolades in the process), Harvey finally got a break when Dark Horse Comics took over the publication in the early 1990s. It was an opportunity for Harvey to reach a wider audience - which, as it turned out, included a few Hollywood types, too. (Who knew?) But that's another story. . . .
Now we are happy to bring you the Best of American Splendor, a collection of some of Harvey's greatest work. Harvey Pekar has been compared to Theodore Dreiser, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce, but this collection is a true American original. Just like Harvey.
'Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand.' -The New York Times Book Review
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| Author | Harvey Pekar / Various |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Page Count | 336pp |
| Publication Size | 8 x 11 |
| Publication Notes | softcover, b/w |
| Publication Date | 2005 |
| ISBN | 978-0345479389 |
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