Comments | richardf8: American Splendor

richardf8

American Splendor

Aug 08, 2003 22:38

I have been reading American Splendor, a comic book anthology written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of rather stunning icons of cartooning including Robert Crumb and Gary Dumm. It is basically a set of autobiographical sketches of Pekar's life, episodes of the unremarkable. Ironically this is precisely what makes it so fascinating. ( Read more... )

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richardf8 August 9 2003, 16:30:21 UTC

That's what made me aware of the book; My partner and I were on our way to B&N and they were interviewing him on MPR. The movie didn't sound very interesting, but I was curious about the book -- and in B&N it had a face-out among the graphic novels. So I guess the movie sold the book to me.