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American Splendor

The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar : Stories

By: Harvey Pekar

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American Splendor

The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar : Stories

By: Harvey Pekar

Presents a collection of black-and-white comics about personal relationships and the workaday world which served as the inspiration for the movie "American Splendor.

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0345468309

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9780345468307

Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly"

By: Harvey Pekar

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Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly"

By: Harvey Pekar

With an appreciation by Anthony Bourdain HAVE ATTITUDE, WILL TRAVEL Harvey Pekar changed the face of comics when his American Splendor series replaced traditional slam-bang superhero action with slice-of-life tales of his own very ordinary existence in Cleveland, Ohio, as a file clerk, jazz-record collector, and philosophical curmudgeon. Much as Seinfeld famously transcended sitcom conventions by being “a show about nothing,” Pekar’s deadpan chronicles of regular life—peppered with wry and caustic reflections—have transformed comics from escapist fantasy into social commentary with voice balloons. Huntington, West Virginia “On the Fly” is prime Pekar, recounting the irascible everyman’s on-the-road encounters with a cross section of characters—a career criminal turned limo-driving entrepreneur, a toy merchant obsessed with restoring a vintage diner, comic-book archivists, indie filmmakers, and children of the sixties—all of whom have stories to tell. By turns funny, poignant, and insightful, these portraits à la Pekar showcase a one-of-a-kind master at work, channeling the stuff of average life into genuine American art.

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168

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Ballantine Group

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0345543408

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9780345543400

Harvey Pekar

Conversations

By: Harvey Pekar

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Conversations

By: Harvey Pekar

Collected interviews with the creator of American Splendor, the longest-running autobiographical comic book series produced in America

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604730854

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9781604730852

American Splendor: Our Movie Year

By: Harvey Pekar

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American Splendor: Our Movie Year

By: Harvey Pekar

From off the streets of Cleveland, the amazing and occasionally regrettable true-life adventures of Harvey Pekar, cineaste. Harvey Pekar is from Cleveland. This much you know. But with the release of American Splendor, the indie hit film based on his comic of the same name, the world discovered Harvey in earnest. Once Harvey was content merely to flirt with fame. But when fame wanted a commitment, he found himself a household name. Sort of. And, to tell you the truth, it’s starting to bug the hell out of him. An original, incisive graphic novel featuring the talents of R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Mark Zingarelli, and other artists, Our Movie Year chronicles a whirlwind twelve months in the life of Harvey Pekar. It recounts his rise from the filing room at the Cleveland VA hospital to the red carpet at Cannes, Sundance, the Oscars, and beyond–where Harvey won awards, accolades, and the promise of a bigger paycheck. A lot of funny things can happen in a year, and many of them happened to Harvey. And now everyone gets to read about them in Our Movie Year.

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0345543394

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9780345543394

More American Splendor

The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar

By: Harvey Pekar

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More American Splendor

The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar

By: Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar once again brings us his unique blend of humor and pathos in this new collection of his autobiographical comic books. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

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160

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Dolphin Books

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ISBN 10

0385240732

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9780385240734

Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

By: Harvey Pekar

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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

By: Harvey Pekar

In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Pekar’s mother was a Zionist by way of politics, his father by way of faith, and he inevitably grew up a staunch supporter of Israel. But as he became attuned to the wider world, Pekar began to question his parents’ most fundamental beliefs. This book is the full account of that questioning. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT Waldman wrestle with the mythologies passed down to them, weaving a personal and historical odyssey of uncommon wit and power. With an epilogue written by Joyce Brabner, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me is an es- sential book for fans of Harvey Pekar and anyone interested in the past and future of the Jewish state.

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176

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Hill and Wang

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0809074044

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9780809074044

Ego & Hubris

The Michael Malice Story

By: Harvey Pekar

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Ego & Hubris

The Michael Malice Story

By: Harvey Pekar

“Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.” –Harvey Pekar Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland? First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager. One day Michael, a guy with a patchwork employment record and dreams as big as his ego, meets Harvey and begins to relay all these wild stories about his life. Simple as that. Harvey thinks the guy is bright but a bit of a riddle–though not the kind wrapped in an enigma. It’s strange. He seems like the type of person you meet every day, rather ordinary, until you really get to know him. Then you realize he’s exceptional, unusual, and contradictory. Pleasant one minute, really nasty the next. But isn’t cruelty part of human nature? We digress. . . . Harvey writes up and illustrates one of Michael Malice’s tales, “Fish Story,” which is part of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It makes a splash and spawns this book, Harvey’s first hardcover, a graphic novel event about one guy’s life. Ego & Hubris relates how, a year and a half after his birth in the Ukraine, Michael Malice moved with his parents to Brooklyn. He’s an intransigent kid, a hard-ass–both a demon to and demonized by the people who cross his path. His life is a constant struggle for validation in a world where the machine keeps trying to break him down. But Michael has a way with people . . . or rather, has a way of getting even with people. Hey, if you can’t live up to your parents’ expectations, at least you can live up to your name. Michael had never come close to fulfilling his huge dreams–until now. And just as Harvey’s been the everyman for a certain generation of graphic-novel readers, Michael Malice will be the everyman for a new generation. From the Hardcover edition.

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Ballantine Books

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0307415112

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9780307415110

Harvey Pekar

Conversations

By: Harvey Pekar

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Conversations

By: Harvey Pekar

Collected interviews with the creator of American Splendor, the longest-running autobiographical comic book series produced in America

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604730854

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American Splendor Presents Bob and Harv's Comics

By: Harvey Pekar,Robert Crumb

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American Splendor Presents Bob and Harv's Comics

By: Harvey Pekar,Robert Crumb

Harvey Pekar is a true American original, known by many as the blue-collar Mark Twain. For over 25 years he's been writing comic books about his life, chronicling the ordinary and everyday in stories both funny and moving.

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320

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1840237872

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9781840237870

The Beats

A Graphic History

By: Harvey Pekar,Ed Piskor

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The Beats

A Graphic History

By: Harvey Pekar,Ed Piskor

Details the history of the Beat movement, which began in the 1940s, and describes the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs; along with other writers, artists, and events in a graphic novel format.

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208

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Macmillan

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0809016494

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9780809016495

Macedonia

What Does It Take to Stop a War?

By: Harvey Pekar,Heather Roberson

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Macedonia

What Does It Take to Stop a War?

By: Harvey Pekar,Heather Roberson

“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 For years Heather Roberson, a passionate peace activist, has argued that war can always be avoided. But she has repeatedly faced counterarguments that fighting is an inescapable consequence of world conflicts. Indeed, Heather finds proving her point to be a little tricky without examples to bolster her case. So she does something a little crazy: She sets out for far-off Macedonia, a landlocked country north of Greece and west of Bulgaria, to explore a region that has edged–repeatedly–close to the brink of violence, only to refrain. In the process–and as vividly portrayed by the talented duo of Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor–Heather is tangled in red tape, ripped off by cabdrivers and hotel clerks, hit on by creepy guys, secretly photographed, and mistaken for a spy. She also creates unlikely friendships, learns that getting lost means seeing something new, and makes some startling discoveries. War is hell and peace is difficult–but conflict is always necessary. “Harvey Pekar wrestles the kind of things most comic book heroes wouldn’t touch with a laser blaster.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer “A visit with Harvey Pekar . . . will cause you to reexamine your own life . . . just as the greatest literature will.” –The Austin Chronicle “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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Ballantine Group

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0345543416

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9780345543417

Studs Terkel's Working

A Graphic Adaptation

By: Harvey Pekar

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Studs Terkel's Working

A Graphic Adaptation

By: Harvey Pekar

Transforms sixteen short oral histories originally published in "Working" into graphic novel vignettes, including stories from a stock broker, a labor organizer, a proofreader, a gravedigger, a mail carrier, and a jazz musician.

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The New Press

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1595583211

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9781595583215

The Beats

A Graphic History

By: Harvey Pekar,Ed Piskor

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A Graphic History

By: Harvey Pekar,Ed Piskor

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0809016494

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9780809016495

Our Cancer Year

By: Harvey Pekar,Joyce Brabner

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Our Cancer Year

By: Harvey Pekar,Joyce Brabner

It was they year of Desert Storm that Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, discovered Harvey had cancer. Pekar, a man who has made a profession of chronicling the Kafkaesque absurdities of an ordinary life (if any life is ordinary) suddenly found himself incapacitated. But he had a better-than-average chance to beat cancer and he took it — kicking, screaming, and complaining all the way. Pekar and Brabner draw on this and other trials to paint a portrait of a man beset with fears real and imagined — who survives.

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228

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Running Press

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1568580118

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9781568580111

The Art of the Comic Book

An Aesthetic History

By: Robert C. Harvey

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The Art of the Comic Book

An Aesthetic History

By: Robert C. Harvey

A history of the comic book, in which a noted cartoonist demonstrates the aesthetics and power of the medium

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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0878057587

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9780878057580

Students for a Democratic Society

A Graphic History

By: Harvey Pekar

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Students for a Democratic Society

A Graphic History

By: Harvey Pekar

A history of the group Students for a Democratic Society told in graphic form.

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Macmillan

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0809089394

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9780809089390

Studs Terkel's Working

A Graphic Adaptation

By: Harvey Pekar

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Studs Terkel's Working

A Graphic Adaptation

By: Harvey Pekar

Comics impresario Harvey Pekar brings to vivid life Terkel’s bestselling masterpiece, with comics by America’s leading illustrators Ever since Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel’s Working first documented American workers’ hopes and dreams, that “deep penetration of American thought and feeling” (Los Angeles Times) has sold over a million copies, captivating readers with accounts of how their fellow citizens make a living. A masterpiece of words, Working is now adapted into comic-book form by Harvey Pekar, the blue-collar antihero of his American Book Award–winning comics series American Splendor. Brilliantly scripting and arranging Terkel’s interviews, Pekar collaborates with established comics veterans and some of the comic underground’s brightest new talent, selected by editor Paul Buhle. Readers will find a visual palette of influences from Mexican, African American, superhero, and feminist art, each piece an electric melding of artist and subject. This is a book that will both delight Terkel fans and introduce his work to a whole new audience—a fitting tribute to an American legend.

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225

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The New Press

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159558515X

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9781595585158

American Splendor: Our Movie Year

By: Harvey Pekar

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American Splendor: Our Movie Year

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Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly"

By: Harvey Pekar

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Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly"

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Students for a Democratic Society

A Graphic History

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A Graphic History

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A history of the group Students for a Democratic Society told in graphic form.

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Macmillan

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0809089394

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Ego & Hubris

The Michael Malice Story

By: Harvey Pekar

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Ego & Hubris

The Michael Malice Story

By: Harvey Pekar

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Macedonia

By: Harvey Pekar,Heather Roberson

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Macedonia

By: Harvey Pekar,Heather Roberson

A portrait of peace activist Heather Roberson, told in the format of a graphic novel, follows her odyssey to the turbulent country of Macedonia, a region on the brink of violence that had somehow managed to avoid all-out war. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Villard Books

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0345498992

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9780345498991

Best of American Splendor

By: Harvey Pekar,Dean Haspiel

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Best of American Splendor

By: Harvey Pekar,Dean Haspiel

The creator of the comic-book series American Splendor presents a collection of his finest works, including his zany commentaries on the complexities of modern life, all illustrated by some of the leading artists in the field. Adult.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0345479386

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9780345479389

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