Tag Archive | "Harvey Pekar"

How to celebrate the life of Harvey Pekar?

Sunday, November 6, 2011

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That was the question faced by Pekar’s wife Joyce Brabner following his death in 2010. Many people in Pekar’s Cleveland put forward the idea of a statue, but Brabner felt uncomfortable with the idea, and it’s taken a while to come up with something more suitable, a way to celebrate one of Cleveland’s comic sons. [...]

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“Nobody owns Harvey Pekar. Not even Harvey Pekar.”

Monday, September 6, 2010

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The above quote comes from friend and collaborator of Harve, Dean Haspiel, who also pointed the way to this article in The New York Times where a number of friends, artistic collaborators and, of course, his wife Joyce, recall our beloved comics curmudgeon and everyman hero.The article also discusses The Pekar Project on SmithMag (which [...]

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“Untitled” – a posthumous helping of the Pekar Project

Friday, August 13, 2010

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The Pekar Project on the very fine SmithMag gives us a lovely little posthumous offering from the late, great Harvey Pekar, illustrated by Rick Parker (tip of the that to Dan Goldman for the heads-up): (Untitled by and (c) Harvey Pekar and Rick Parker, borrowed from SmithMag) And if you missed them SmithMag still has [...]

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More Pekar tributes….. and Helen Mirren

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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I didn’t intend to feature stuff from ComicTwart this week, as I’ve linked them a few times in the last couple of weeks, but these Pekar tributes are just too good not to show you…. (Art by Francesco Francavilla and Mr Hawthorne) There’s also news over on Comics Beat regarding Harvey’s funeral and a request [...]

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Me, Harvey and Everyone We Know

Monday, July 19, 2010

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The excellent Vanessa Davis pays tribute to Harvey Pekar on the Tablet site; in another sad twist Vanessa notes that Jeff Newelt, editor of the Pekar Project on the fine SmithMag, had arranged for her to work with Harvey recently – he should have seen the work this week.  (via Dirk at Journalista): (Me, Harvey [...]

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Toby Radloff’s farewell to Harvey

Monday, July 19, 2010

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Friend and former co-worker Toby Radloff pays tribute to the late, great Harvey Pekar on Lurid:

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Perfect Harvey Pekar tribute…..

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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From the Daily Cross Hatch, words by Brian Heater and art by Jospeh Remnant of the Pekar Project. It absolutely epitomises the man and his work. (Via Wim)

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More on Harvey

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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(Harvey Pekar reading from the Pekar Project at KingCon) Friend and collaborator of Harvey, Dean Haspiel, points us to the above video and to his thoughts on Harvey in the LA Times: “When I was a teenager, “American Splendor” was the first independently published comic book I ever picked up and Harvey Pekar proved to [...]

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Splendor lost: R.I.P. Harvey Pekar 1939-2010

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Terrible news waiting for me tonight as I looked through the feed readers. Harvey Pekar died today, aged 70. The cause of death is as yet unknown, but he’d battled cancer previously and has been reported as suffering from prostrate cancer, depression and high blood pressure. Best known for American Splendor, his long running comic series [...]

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Harvey Pekar talks to Josh McCutchen

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Smithmag (home of some great online comics over the last few years) offers up a short video interview with our favourite comics curmudgeon, the one and only Harvey Pekar talking to Josh McCutchen (via Journalista)

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“I bet it don’t get any easier from here on…”

Friday, September 11, 2009

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I’m not even going to attempt to say anything on the anniversary of the dreadful 9-11 attacks, instead I offer this understated, simple but effective collaboration between Harvey Pekar and Tony Millionaire: (taken from The Art of Tony Millionaire, (c) Harv Pekar and Tony Millionaire, published Dark Horse)

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Pekar Project – Harvey’s Online!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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Now this is good news. The writer of American Splenor now has an online strip, hosted at Smith and illustrated by four artists: Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor. New stories appear every other week, starting right here with the first strip illustrated by Tara Siebel.

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