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...Harvey Pekar - blue-collar scholar, retired file clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series "American Splendor" - can now add "movie star" to his c.v. "American Splendor" started in 1976 as a self-published autobiographical comic book that chronicled the author's living and working in Cleveland. Disarmingly low-key and driven mostly by the working-class intellectual author's irascible but entertaining personality, "American Splendor" uses a medium associated mostly with sensational escapism for odes on the frustrations, triumphs and mundanities of ordinary life...
...FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES Actor Paul Giamatti and Harvey Pekar attend the Los Angeles premiere of "American Splendor...
...American comic publishers gather under one roof. Consequently it becomes like a dense star that pulls creators of every genre into its orbit. Fans can go crazy trying to find them all, from the venerable Will Eisner (who was previewing his latest book "Fagin the Jew") to Harvey Pekar (stumping for the "American Splendor" movie) to Alex Ross (previewing the new hardcover of his painted superhero art) to Michael Chabon (previewing his comic "The Escapist," based on the character in "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.") The number of creators easily reached several thousand. Marvel Comics, perhaps demonstrating just...
Editor Diana Schutz solicited work for "Happy Endings" (Dark Horse Comics; $9.95; 96pp.) that would, according to her, "somehow fit under the overarching umbrella" of the title. Interestingly, only a few of the contributions took the mandate literally. Harvey Pekar, of "American Splendor," proffers a disturbing piece about his mental breakdown and the return of a malignant tumor. He ends with "I'm trying to work my way through. What else is there?" Mixing independent newcomers with such big-name artists as Frank Miller ("The Dark Knight Strikes Back,") "Happy Endings" has the most mainstream appeal of the four anthologies...
...opens with two big block panels drawn by Tony Millionaire, featuring Harvey Pekar, the grumpy old man of indie comix. When he hears the news on the radio he says, "I bet it don't get any easier here on," a classic of Pekar's truth in understatement. Nearly all of the sixty-plus stories use a similar autobiographical approach, typically recounting the day's events. The most harrowing of these, written by Evan Forsch and drawn by Robert Ullman, tells of Forsch's escape from the 89th floor of the WTC's north tower. With other contributions from Puerto...