Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant. Top Shelf/Zip, $21.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60309-091-9
The late Pekar celebrates, to the extent the obligatorily morose underground cartoonist was capable of celebrating anything, his hometown of Cleveland and the life he spent there. After a pocket history of that once great city, Pekar focuses on the...
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Harvey Pekar, Author and various artists. Ballantine $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-345-47937-2
Fans of Pekar's slice-of-life series American Splendor
might be worried when they pick up this latest installment. Pekar is known for his everyman persona and his man-of-the-people storytelling style. But can he keep those qualities in the face
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Harvey Pekar and Summer McClinton. Villard, $19.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-345-49941-7
One of the final books written by the late Pekar, this volume collects five short pieces, mostly relating to a trip he made to West Virginia for a speaking engagement at a book festival: a series of anecdotes from an eccentric, dreadlocked limo...
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Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman. FSG/. Hill and Wang, $24.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9482-0
Instead of the single-minded polemic that the title promises, this posthumous work by Pekar functions as a multipronged exploration of religious, political, and personal histories and is all the richer for it. Pekar structures his narrative as a...
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Dean Haspiel, Illustrator . DC/ Vertigo $19.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0399-3
Pekar's work, memorialized in the movie American Splendor
, is an ongoing chronicle of his life in all its quotidian glory. Until now, he's only written nonfiction vignettes of his life as a jazz-loving slacker. The strength of Pekar's...
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Gary Dumm, Illustrator . Ballantine $19.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-345-47939-6
American Splendor
's Pekar branches out into a full-length story of someone else. This first-person tale documents the life of New York native Michael Malice, a fairly streetwise geek of frightening intelligence, if he does say so himself. Which
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Frank Stack, Illustrator, Joyce Brabner, With Running Press Book Publishers $19.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-56858-011-1
Joined by his wife and collaborator Brabner and illustrator Stack, Pekar's (The New American Splendor Anthology) first book-length comics narrative is by turns amusing, frightening, moving and quietly entertaining. As always, Pekar's work records...
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Darwyn Cooke, Illustrator, Dean Haspiel, Illustrator and various. DC/Vertigo $14.99 (132p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2173-7
The most recent volume of Pekar’s autobiographical anecdotes about the nonevents of his life is so self-reflexive it threatens to swallow its own tail. Pekar has been writing American Splendor
comics for well over 30 years, but as they’v
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Robert Crumb, Illustrator Running Press Book Publishers $16 (96p) ISBN 978-1-56858-101-9
Both Robert Crumb (Self-Loathing Comics), who defined the underground comics of the 1960s, and Harvey Pekar (Cancer Year), whose autobiographical comic (American Splendor) launched an entire movement in the 1980s, have transformed American...
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Paul Buhle, Editor, Gary Dumm, Illustrator . Hill & Wang $22 (214p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9539-1
American Splendor's
Pekar has been incredibly prolific in the last few years, and more recently he has taken on nonautobiographical projects to varying degrees of success. This newest effort works on a variety of levels. For one, Pekar is not...
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Ho Che Anderson, Illustrator, Zachary Baldus, Illustrator and others. DC/Vertigo $14.99 (132p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1235-3
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nderground comics favorite Pekar returns with another collection of autobiographical reflections. His narratives are subdued and unconventional, with the rhythm of ordinary life. In this collection he captures something every reader can relate to,
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Harvey Pekar, Author, Paul Butler, Author, Paul Buhle, Editor and various. New Press $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59558-321-5
Pekar (American Splendor
; Our Cancer Year
) adapts Terkel's masterpiece of oral history in this loving tribute. Working
features various artists, including Sharon Rudahl (A Dangerous Woman: the Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
), Terry LaBan
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