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...Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner (Four Walls Eight Windows; 1994) A pioneer in the form of autobiographical comix, Harvey Pekar and his "American Splendor" series recently became the basis for a hit independent film. This is his most serious and longest work, written in collaboration with his wife and drawn by Frank Stack, and is a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Graphic Literature Library | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...next week and may be the most ambitious film adaptation of a comic ever attempted. Co-directors and script-writers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini combine re-enactments with animation and documentary footage of the real people being played in the movie - including Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner - sometimes putting the actors and their real-life counterparts in the same frame. Giamatti gives a hilariously simian characterization of Pekar as he struggles to find meaning in his life. Essentially a story about the redemptive power of art, Pekar's comix lead him to his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mensch for All Mediums | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

...Ballantine is re-publishing the first two "American Splendor" collections as a single volume. Other collections and "Our Cancer Year," co-written with Joyce Brabner, are also still available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mensch for All Mediums | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

...Libya, Greece, Crete and Syria, said Lieut. Brabner, military operations had been dangerously hung up by lack of supplies; 70% to 80% of British tanks in Greece had broken down before they got to the front lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Production Blowoff | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Lieut. Brabner stated the position of the fighting men, tried to lay no blame for the situation as he found it. But the speakers who followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Production Blowoff | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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