Harvey Pekar dies at age 70

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 14:41 -0700

Sad news from the comics world today:

Harvey Pekar, Who Chronicled Ordinary Lives in ‘American Splendor’ Comics, Dies

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/...%20Pekar&st=cse

Mark Evanier had this to write about Pekar:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_07_12.html#019250

Post by **Maka** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 22:48 -0700

Our Cancer Years is an amazing graphic novel. But I had trouble getting through the American Splendor collections. The David Letterman interviews are on YouTube.

I haven't seen the movie yet.

RIP Harvey Pekar.

Peace, maka

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:37 -0700

The American Splendor movie is good. When I was in college, the professor who taught one of my lit classes showed it to us for some reason (I don't remember exactly why, but since we read Spiegelman's Maus in this class, it might have had a connection to that).

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:20 -0700

Ken Mills, the director of the Bone documentary, The Cartoonist, has uploaded a short interview with Harvey Pekar on YouTube. It covers his friendship with Crumb, and Harvey’s views on the potential of comics.

http://www.boneville.com/2010/07/28/har ... artoonist/

I've tried to get The Cartoonist from Netflix for a while now, but the status has yet to move from "Very Long Wait."