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...Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets, about growing up in the devout Christian hinterlands of Wisconsin, became the first such work to gain both critical and popular success. This month will see the arrival of two more very strong books based on the authors' childhood. Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, comes from a veteran comix-maker, while, Shane White's North Country marks the author's debut. Though their early circumstances could not have been more different, the authors' childhoods share some remarkable similarities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Knock Life | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...Quitter (DC/Vertigo; 104 pages; $20), a hardcover book illustrated by Dean Haspiel, represents Harvey Pekar's first major work of original material since the release of the film American Splendor, based on his comix series. As anyone who watched that splendid movie knows, Pekar led a fairly unremarkable life as a Cleveland file clerk until he decided to turn that very mundaneness into comic art. Hiring others to illustrate his non-fiction vignettes of such quotidian occurrences as starting a car in the winter or talking with co-workers, Pekar's stories were driven by his intensely cranky, neurotic, highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Knock Life | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...Pekar grew up as the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants in Cleveland during the 1940s and 50s. As a result, much of The Quitter involves the classic American literary theme of assimilation. Though extremely popular in other mediums, this theme, again, has gotten little attention in comix except obliquely, through such genre works as Seigel and Shuster's Superman character. Thanks to Pekar's obsessive self-examination and what he calls his "trick" memory of near perfect recall, The Quitter takes its place as a top example of the New World Experience in graphic literature (see also the outstanding Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Knock Life | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...QUITTER ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL Written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Dean Haspiel. Pekar's first work for Vertigo, THE QUITTER is an original graphic novel that mines tales from Pekar's childhood and early adolescence. (FALL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telescoping | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...know I have to do this time, and then once more, before I can take a right turn at the bottom of the hill and go toward the sign that says "Finish." (I don't consider crossing the finish line one lap short. I'd rather viewed as a quitter than as just plain dumb). If this were the last time up the hill, I know it would be different. The last time you have to do anything awful it usually goes pretty smoothly. We have an automatic "last time" circuit that kicks in and can get us over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

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