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Harvey Lawrence Pekar ( / ˈpiːkɑːr /; October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) [1] was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a well-received film adaptation of the same name.
Sep 1, 2010 · Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
Jul 16, 2010 · Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, who published a series of caustically funny autobiographical stories about the ups and downs of everyday life, died Monday morning. He was 70.
Amid's David Letterman's farewell, here's how comics writer Harvey Pekar became one of the late show's greatest recurring guests
Jul 13, 2010 · Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book “American Splendor” attracted a cult following for its unvarnished stories of a depressed, aggrieved Everyman negotiating daily life in ...
Jul 12, 2010 · Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, whose American Splendor captured with wit and angst the downbeat details of a life lived in Rust Belt Cleveland, was found dead in his home early Monday ...
Jul 12, 2010 · Harvey Pekar, the irascible writer who spun the mundane details of his own life and the quotidian existences of his fellow Cleveland residents into comic-book narratives, and who showed that the...
PEKAR, HARVEY LAWRENCE (8 October 1939-12 July 2010) was a comic book writer and critic. Born in Cleveland to Saul and Dora Pekar, Jewish immigrants from Poland, he graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1957.
Jul 12, 2010 · Cult comic author Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, has died at the age of 70. Pekar's life and work provided the basis for the 2003 film American Splendor, starring Paul...
Jul 12, 2010 · Harvey Pekar, a comic artist best known for his autobiographical series American Splendor depicting everyday life in Cleveland, has died, multiple sources are reporting. He was 70. He is best...
