American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
by Harvey Pekar
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Author: Harvey PekarEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-29
ISBN: 0345468309
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345468307
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Book Reviews of American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
Book Review: Beats Hollywood
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book because i liked the movie so much. i chose THIS book because it looked like the best value for money offer avaiable and i wasn't wrong.
this for sure ain't an easy read and it takes some time to work your way through all the stories. but i think it is worth it. This is a great book and even if the crumbdrawn stories stand out on first sight i found the other artists as interesting on second sight.
One thing that occurd to me is how much more complex and interesting and deep the original stories are in comparison to the abovementioned movie. this is a good example to study how they they flatten and manipulate the real life and the real world to squeeze it in a screensized format.
So, this is a very cheap book with great art in it and i recommend it to everyone who seeks for true stuff produced by people stubborn enough to produce it.
Summary of American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
The inspiration for the award-winning moviefrom HBO Films and Fine Line Features
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
Two classic comic anthologies in one volume
Stories by Harvey Pekar
Introduction by R. Crumb
Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray
The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival
American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them-he is himself.
"Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."
-The New York Times
"[Pekar] has a vision that makes daily city life-a ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying bread-dramatic."
-Chicago Sun-Times
"Simply stated, American Splendor is the most superb literary endeavor to come off the streets of Cleveland in decades."
-The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"Mr. Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand."
-The New York Times Book Review
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