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Pekar, who occasionally appears as himself in the film but is mostly played (brilliantly) as a sort of hand-cranked motormouth by Paul Giamatti, is a guy who hears America squawking and whining and choking on its own bile. Befriended by such comics artists as R. Crumb, Pekar starts turning out stories for them to illustrate. These anticomics, from which American Splendor gets its title, together with some appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, grant him underground fame but never enough money to quit...
...Pekar: What happened was that in 1962 I met Robert Crumb. He moved to Cleveland, and initially we had in common jazz record collecting. He showed me some of the stuff he was working on including this graphic novel called "The Big Yum Yum Book." I was very impressed with [the book] and it started to dawn on me that you could do anything in comics that you could do in other mediums. And I started to wonder, 'Why hasn't this been done before? Why haven't they done realistic comics?' It's just because people had no confidence...
...write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions. So I decided I would do that and see if I could maybe come up with an artist. And I was paying attention to what the underground cartoonists were doing in the sixties and the early seventies. Crumb moved out of Cleveland in 1966 but he kept in touch. I followed his work and continued to buy underground comix. And I just saw more and more possibility in comics...
...vanished too, speeding downhill toward a dubious breakfast. A snow rat poked its head out, hoping for a crumb. I broke the park's rules and tossed him a piece of cookie. Feeding anything that lives at this desolate height has to be good karma. So long as you're not offering a deep-fried sandwich...
...cleared up as NASA continues its hunt for debris--particularly if it finds the first bits that fell from the ship. Shuttle tiles carry serial numbers that correspond to a particular part on the spacecraft's underside. The pieces on the ground thus form a sort of bread-crumb trail leading back to the area on the spacecraft where the problems began. Find the westernmost part, and you have pinpointed the trouble spot. "That would be very, very significant," says Dittemore...