Best of American SplendorExperience the heartwarming all-American story of a crank and his comic book. What’s a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? The story begins in 1976, when Harvey began publishing his autobiographical, slice-of-downtrodden-life comic book series American Splendor, illustrated by a who’s who of underground comic artists, including R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Greg Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray. After self-publishing American Splendor for nearly two decades under less than splendid conditions (and racking impressive accolades in the process), Harvey finally got a break when Dark Horse Comics took over the publication in the early 1990s. It was an opportunity for Harvey to reach a wider audience–which, as it turned out, included a few Hollywood types, too. (Who knew?) But that’s another story. . . . Now we are happy to bring you the Best of American Splendor, a collection of some of Harvey’s greatest work. Harvey Pekar has been compared to Theodore Dreiser, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce, but this collection is a true American original. Just like Harvey. |
Contents
Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 31 |
Section 3 | 32 |
Section 4 | 97 |
Section 5 | 110 |
Section 6 | 147 |
Section 7 | 158 |
Section 8 | 193 |
Section 10 | 224 |
Section 11 | 228 |
Section 12 | 239 |
Section 13 | 245 |
Section 14 | 273 |
Section 15 | 283 |
Section 16 | 292 |
Section 17 | 302 |
Section 9 | 215 |
Section 18 | 323 |
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