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Stairway to Cleveland: My Dinner with Harvey Pekarnew
My dinner with Harvey Pekar -- three weeks ago
Austin Chronicle |
Raoul Hernandez |
07-19-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar RIP: Bard of the Rust Beltnew
LeBron James will easily fit into his sunny new environs in Miami, but Harvey Pekar was the kind of crank that couldn't exist anywhere but Cleveland.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Kevin Hoffman |
07-14-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Harvey Pekar, Cleveland
Repression Illustrated: People's History in a Graphic Formatnew
National Lampoon/Heavy Metal illustrator Rick Geary’s graphic bio of the notorious FBI strongman, J. Edgar Hoover, and American Splendor author Harvey Pekar’s anthology of new-left living-history reminiscences, Students for a Democratic Society are well-drawn histories.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
07-03-2008 |
Nonfiction
Reluctant Antiheronew
Though he might not always think so, Harvey Pekar is one genuinely lucky guy.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
04-20-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harvey Pekar
The Prequel Pekarnew
With the rest of his life thoroughly documented through thirty years of American Splendor, Harvey Pekar's new book The Quitter has the air of a swan song.
Chicago Newcity |
Brian and Matthew Hieggelke |
01-10-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter
Don't Quit Now
What does Harvey Pekar still have left to reveal about himself? How about his secret origin?
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Original Work
Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter
Tales of a Quitternew
A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Cartoonist Creates Art From the Ordinarynew
Our Movie Year contains some of the heaviest personal material Harvey Pekar has offered yet. It examines how overwhelmed he was by the prospect of long-delayed success.
New York Press |
Paul Buhle |
12-20-2004 |
Nonfiction
