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

• dualboot 16y ago
  Mr. Pekar had an amazing ability to show the gritty and hilarious reality of our everyday lives. He is also so thoroughly Cleveland.. Harvey, you are missed.
• wyclif 16y ago
  The "working man's intellectual." My brother and I loved the American Splendor comic as kids, even though some of the adult-oriented content was over our heads. A great writer has passed. I'll never forget Pekar saying of David Letterman, "Guy's just a fratboy". I miss TV like that.
• kaffeinecoma 16y ago
  I just picked up "Best of American Splendor" and "From Off the Streets of Cleveland" 2 weeks ago, having learned that I was Pekar's neighbor in Cleveland Heights. I moved here from the East Coast only a year ago, and was excited to read a local author and see illustrations of places I was just getting to know. He'll be missed, but thankfully there's a huge catalog of his work to read through.
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