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	WKSU News Commentator: Harvey Pekar
		Harvey Pekar may be best known through his “American Splendor”; comic book series, which have gathered critical praise and an American Book Award since he began publishing them in 1976.
		Pekar is also a favorite on the talk-show circuit, including eight infamous appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman.” A respected writer and jazz critic, Pekar still works full-time as a file clerk at the Cleveland VA Hospital, a job he has held since 1966.
		Harvey Pekar is a winner of the National Book Award for his comic novel “Our Cancer Year” and a file clerk at the V-A Hospital in Cleveland.
	www.wksu.org /news/commentators/pekar (600 words)

	The Comics Journal: Newswatch
		But to comic-book fans, Pekar is famous for chronicling the story of his life, bringing unexpected drama and poignancy to the existence of a man who worked all his life as a government file clerk.
		Pekar said his past relations with the Journal had been poor and that he had heard from one of the American Splendor directors that the Journal reporter thought Pekar was not well-read.
		Pekar muttered a greeting to the veteran and moved on to an information desk, explaining to the man there that he used to work at the hospital and needed to find the file room.
	www.tcj.com /255/n_pekar.html (3038 words)

	The Quitter by Harvey Pekar : Night Flight Comics : Salt Lake City : Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harvey's teenage years were punctuated with intellectual and emotional retreats, until, faced with his future, he learns what it means to suck it up and stick with it.
		Pekar's rise wasn't meteoric; not at all, it was more like a climb up a fire escape, with a stop for a smoke on the eighth and twelfth floors.
		Through Pekar's athletic interests readers are given a deeper look into the insecurities and obsession with future success that gives the work its title; if there was any chance of failure or of not being the best at something, he quit.
	www.night-flight.com /HarveyPekar/quitter.html (1322 words)

	NEWSARAMA.COM:TALKING TO HARVEY PEKAR
		And if you’re only familiar with Pekar through the film, yes, you get to clearly see why he was the way he was during the period recounted in American Splendor.
		The idea of Pekar, working on another movie deal, staying active in comics, and hustling for more work, the creator acknowledges, may strike some as not fitting the view they’ve cultivated of him over the years of a loser who’s chronically depressed and pessimistic.
		Pekar’s final book of the Ballantine deal will see him enter the same arena as his friend and occasional collaborator, Joe Sacco.
	www.newsarama.com /Vertigo/Quitter/Harvey_Quitter.htm (2238 words)

	WKSU News Feature: Who is Harvey Pekar?
		Harvey Pekar is the ideal embodiment of life in Cleveland.
		Since 1999, Harvey has shared his reflections on life in the 21st century as a WKSU commentator, earning him kudos regionally and nationally.
		Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s ode to the irascible Harvey Pekar was born of a unique vision.
	www.wksu.org /features/harveypekar (211 words)

	iamharveypekar - Harvey Pekar - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cleveland, Ohio native Harvey Pekar is best known for his autobiographical slice-of-life comic book series "American Splendor", a first-person account of Pekar’s downtrodden life.
		Pekar began working on a freelance basis with the critically acclaimed, award-winning radio station WKSU on April 12, 1999.
		Pekar has made two cameo appearances in films and appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman" eight times between 1986-1988.
	www.greatestjournal.com /userinfo.bml?user=iamharveypekar (371 words)

	Harvey Pekar The Quitter Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		As Pekar's story unfolds, readers for the first time get a glimpse of the child who was the father of a man we know so very well.
		Harvey was a perfectionist who, if he considered his own efforts less than perfect, simply quit rather than let himself finish in second place.
		The charm of this novel is that Pekar uses the comic medium to great advantage, inserting his older self in the action as his younger self gets the stuffing pounded out of him, or pounds the stuffing out of some unfortunate opponent.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2006/pekar-the_quitter.htm (713 words)

	Harvey Pekar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harvey Pekar (born October 8, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American underground comic book writer.
		Pekar was also given the honor of being the first guest editor for the The Best American Comics 2006 collection published by Houghton Mifflin, the first comics publication in the "Best American series" series.
		Pekar's third wife is writer Joyce Brabner, with whom he collaborated on Our Cancer Year, a graphic novel autobiography of his struggle with lymphoma which won a Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Original Work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvey_Pekar (675 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: American Splendor
		Pekar saw Crumb's work on Fritz the Cat and other early creations, and came to realize that comics could be more than just children's literature.
		Pekar's insightful observations about everyday blue-collar existence have attracted a virtual who's who of comix.
		In the early 1990s, Pekar was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer — and that, too, became the subject of his writing.
	www.toonopedia.com /splendor.htm (542 words)

	NPR : The Childhood of Harvey Pekar, 'The Quitter'
		NPR : The Childhood of Harvey Pekar, 'The Quitter'
		Fresh Air from WHYY, November 10, 2005 ·; The Quitter, the new graphic novel from Harvey Pekar, is an autobiographical account of his upbringing as the son of Jewish immigrants.
		Pekar began writing comic book stories in 1972, encouraged by his friend Robert Crumb, a comic book author and artist who has illustrated many of Pekar's pieces.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005754 (294 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| Books \| INTERVIEW \| Harvey Pekar \| Wednesday April 19th, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harvey Pekar speaks as part of the Portland Arts & Lectures series at First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 227-2583.
		Pekar spoke with WW from his home in Cleveland before he hits town tomorrow as part of a Portland Arts and Lectures event.
		Harvey Pekar: Well, my work...looks like a comic book, you know, in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content.
	www.wweek.com /story.php?story=7445 (866 words)

	'The Quitter' by Harvey Pekar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pekar walks past the reader, then turns to his left, his back now to us, but he throws a half-glance over his shoulder.
		Pekar's dialogue appears in the familiar balloons and the balloons are encapsulated by the panel.
		Pekar's opening statement suggests weariness and a little annoyance with the reader, as if we were demanding him to tell his story.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06050/657129.stm (647 words)

	NEWSARAMA
		“Harvey did too - since I was the guy who introduced him to Ted Hope, the movie producer who helped make the movie happen, he feels like he owes me one.
		The story also is a regional history of sorts as it is set in Pekar’s native Cleveland in the ‘40s and ‘50s, and relates the author’s experiences with the city’s various neighborhoods.
		Pekar is self-examining everyman who opens his life for all to see.
	www.newsarama.com /pages/DC/Pekar.htm (891 words)

	Hogan's Interviews \| Harvey Pekar
		It ties Pekar’s illness with Brabner’s activist concerns, and as she says, they “argued unsuccessfully with our publisher about tagging it as ‘health/autobiography’ but we ended up in the graphic novels/sci-fi and humor ghetto again.” Though not a bleak and depressing book, Our Cancer Year is neither humorous nor (science) fictional.
		We called her “Dr. Rhodes.” She told the writer Harvey was treated before they started using a drug that would have done a lot to minimize the suffering he experienced during immunosuppression, when he was blistered all over and trying to sleep on the palms of his hands and on his knees.
		Pekar: The book is factually accurate except for in some cases we disguise people’s identities by changing their name and/or occupations or appearance.
	cagle.msnbc.com /hogan/interviews/pekar/home.asp (8813 words)

	village voice > news > Losing His Voice by Ed Park
		In the film, the artist recording Pekar's illness is so incapable of caring for his daughter that Harvey and Joyce wind up adopting her.
		Pekar sings what was unsung, the little rituals of survival in a combat zone, and sings it entirely in McNeill's voice, his own famous ego nowhere to be seen.
		Harvey not only knew the book, he had the original version, and several other Brodsky titles besides; he also mentioned that the novelist had lived in Cleveland for a time, studying medicine before abandoning it for a literary career that has brought high praise and long-standing obscurity.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0331/park.php (2139 words)

	EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Pekar on AMERICAN SPLENDOR
		HARVEY PEKAR is a man whose life is ordinary to such an extent that it actually warranted an auto-biographical comic book, a best-selling graphic novel, and now even a critically acclaimed motion picture by the name of AMERICAN SPLENDOR.
		When you speak with Harvey, there is a certain sense that he is not judging you, that he accepts you as who you are, and that he is being completely and utterly honest with you.
		Pekar, tired of spinning yarn, decided to use his presence on the show in order to get political and speak out against GM (the owner of NBC, the network on which the show airs).
	www.movieweb.com /news/04/2404.php (1666 words)

	American Splendor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pekar was one of the first writers to believe that everyday real life could be a viable topic for comic books, traditionally the province of fantasy-adventure and other genre stories.
		Pekar's run on Letterman became more sporadic after an interview segment in which Pekar criticized Letterman for ducking criticism of GE, the parent company of NBC.
		In 2003 a movie adaptation featuring Paul Giamatti playing Pekar (as well as appearances by Pekar himself) and Hope Davis as his wife was released to critical acclaim and first honors at the Sundance Film Festival in addition to the award for best adapted screenplay from the Writer's Guild of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Splendor (819 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pekar gets film made and says it's about time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harvey Pekar is surely the first VA hospital file clerk and freelance jazz critic to be the subject of an award-winning movie, opening Friday in New York, Los Angeles and his hometown, Cleveland.
		Pekar, 63, has been chronicling his seemingly mundane Cleveland life in a series of American Splendor comic books since 1976.
		Pekar, who never read the script before showing up on the set to narrate, says the movie is much more inventive than he anticipated.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-08-13-pekar-main_x.htm (454 words)

	Amazon.ca: American Splendor: Books: Harvey Pekar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harvey has a way of writing his comics to give you the REAL way of looking at the world in which we live in.
		I think that Harvey Pekar is one of the best comic book writers out there, although under-rated, but I think that he's been able to come through for the fans and I can't wait to see the movie!
		For those that have seen the film version of Harvey Pekar's AMERICAN SPLENDOR and are interested in learning more about him and his work, this is the best place to begin.
	www.amazon.ca /American-Splendor-Harvey-Pekar/dp/0345468309 (1160 words)

	YouTube - Harvey Pekar on Letterman
		Harvey was on an earlier episode and revealed that GE was a major U.S. defense contractor.
		First time Ive seen Harvey, and dont profess to know that much about him, but GEs involvement in US defence is such an inappropriate issue for the letterman show.
		Harveys like that one uncle at the christmas dinner, who always raises some political issue or government conspiracy.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=iBr4NxujLvw (401 words)

	Harvey Pekar News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American Splendor Harvey Pekar moves to DC Comics; expect that Batman vs. Pekar match we comics geeks have been waiting for.
		All of you Harvey Pekar fans may not realize that the writer is still cranking out new issues of his long-running autobiographical comic, American Splendor.
		Harvey Pekar's forthcoming graphic novel from Ballantine/Random House strays more than a few blocks away from his native Cleveland, where he spun the autobiographical tales of his original underground comic...
	www.topix.net /who/harvey-pekar (639 words)

	Amazon.com: American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar: Books: Harvey Pekar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pekar has been described as a "working class intellectual" (The Comics Journal), and this label is respectfully accurate.
		American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar is the largest published collection of the comic series, containing the complete text of American Splendor and More American Splendor.
		Pekar is an okay writer who has absolutely nothing of any importance to say about anything, so he fictionalizes trivial incidents from his humdrum existence as a file clerk in Cleveland into badly drawn comic books and calls it writing.
	www.amazon.com /American-Splendor-Times-Harvey-Pekar/dp/0345468309 (1803 words)

	On Point : Harvey Pekar's American Life - Harvey Pekar's American Life
		Harvey Pekar's been called a schlep, a crank, and eternal pessimist.
		In 2003, Pekar's life became the subject of the movie "American Splendor,"; which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the International Critics' Prize at Cannes.
		Harvey Pekar is creator of the autobiographical comic "American Splendor." The 2003 movie "American Splendor" is based on his life.
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2005/01/20050125_b_main.asp (395 words)

	SPX \| The Small Press Expo \| Exhibitors
		Pekar's books include American Splendor: Our Cancer Year, Our Movie Year and 2 volumes of American Splendor stories.He also writes music and book critiques, and has been a long time personality on WKSU radio in Kent, Ohio.
		Pekar has a new graphic novel coming out in late October, The Quitter, from the VERTIGO imprint of DC Comics.
		Pekar, including his blog, is available at his website http://www.harveypekar.com.
	www.spxpo.com /pekar_2005.shtml (434 words)

	TIME.com -- Andrew Arnold: A Mensch for All Mediums
		Harvey Pekar — blue-collar scholar, retired file clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series "American Splendor" —; can now add "movie star" to his c.v.
		Pekar: I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose.
		Pekar: I think the value is that this is most of what life is about and yet nobody talks about it or writes about it.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,474360,00.html (1463 words)

	Comic creator: Harvey Pekar
		In 1976, Harvey Pekar brought a real breakthrough in American comics: his 'American Splendor', a comic featuring Pekar's stories drawn by several artists such as R.
		Harvey Pekar billed this book as coming "from off the streets of Cleveland" and that's the kind of stories readers got - no bombast in either tag lines or narratives, no romanticizing of either sex or violence.
		Often funny, sometimes poignant, but always truthful in a medium that mostly specializes in fiction." Pekar's 'American Splendor' has been made into a movie which has been awarded on several occasions.
	lambiek.net /artists/p/pekar_harvey.htm (142 words)

	:From Off the Streets of Cleveland Comes Harvey Pekar's Official Blog
		I specifically remember Danielle doubled over with laughter at the sight of her recently acquired guardians in motion because we looked, to her, “like a parakeet on her perch and a gasping fish out of water.” Harvey is not an easy partner to follow.
		Neither would Harvey, who held it in a half tackle, pulled along with his legs hanging off.
		I’ve been on the road for most of July and all of August and would like to sleep in my own bed again and get Danielle started in her new education routine which includes part home schooling and part public high school.
	www.harveypekar.com (3359 words)

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