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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...