RIP Harvey Pekar

[JSt0rm]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=67661

Harvey had recently retired from a long sting as a file clerk job in a VA hospital in Cleveland; an experience he often mined to get material for his comic book series, American Splendor.

A biopic about Harvey's career was made, with Paul Giamatti playing Harvey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/

on david letterman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBr4NxujLvw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0akXKxbflM

 

[GoPackGo]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=67661

Harvey had recently retired from a long sting as a file clerk job in a VA hospital in Cleveland; an experience he often mined to get material for his comic book series, American Splendor.

A biopic about Harvey's career was made, with Paul Giamatti playing Harvey.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/

on david letterman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBr4NxujLvw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0akXKxbflM

who?

 

[JSt0rm]

who?

lolololo

 

[kranky]

I've read a few things he did with R. Crumb, good stuff. I remember reading that Pekar once said he would have sold out to mainstream media if he had known how to do it. Just a totally unassuming guy.

 

[Perknose]

I've read a few things he did with R. Crumb, good stuff. I remember reading that Pekar once said he would have sold out to mainstream media if he had known how to do it. Just a totally unassuming guy.

A true American original, in the mold of Charles Bukowski (poet), Studs Terkel (newspaperman and working history chronicler), John Prine (Chicago postman and singer-songwriter) and Tom Waits (for no man.)

Men of substance and heart.

Together they are the heart and soul of the anti-Britney Spears/Backstreet Boys/Lindsay Lohan plastic star machine.

 

[Stifko]

He was a real character, R.I.P.