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(0)Harvey Pekar
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 159 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
172 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harvey Pekar’s mother was a Zionist by way of politics. His father was a Zionist by way of faith. Whether Harvey was going to daily Hebrew classes or attending Zionist picnics, he grew up a staunch supporter of the Jewish state. But soon he found himself questioning the very beliefs and ideals of his parents. In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic memoir from the man who defined the genre, Pekar explores what it means to be...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 214 p. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
n 1962 at a United Auto Workers ́camp in Michigan, Students for a Democratic Society held its historic convention and prepared the famous Port Huron Statement, drafted by Tom Hayden. This statement, criticizing the U.S. governmentś failure to pursue international peace or address domestic inequality, became the organizationś manifesto. Its last convention was held in 1969 in Chicago, where, collapsing under the weight of its notoriety and popularity,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
152 p. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cleveland native Harvey Pekar entered our national consciousness first as the author of the autobiographical graphic novel American Splendor and then as the star of the Sundance Award-winning documentary with the same title. In Ego & Hubris, he explores the life of antihero Michael Malice, an unshakably self-confident New York temp. Egomaniacal Malice has never encountered an intellect he cannot disparage, but his life is in tatters, which only redoubles...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
174 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harvey Pekar's life since achieving fame with his motion picture, with other vignettes of working-class life and biographies of some early jazz and rock musicians. Illustrated by ten different artists.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Harvey Pekar, a true American original. For over 25 years he's been writing comic books about his life, chronicling the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. Working as a hospital file clerk in Cleveland, his dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Illustrating his stories are the cream of the underground comics world, including...
7) The quitter
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the first time, Harvey Pekar tells the story of his childhood as the son of Jewish immigrants. Through his tumultous adolescence as a neighborhood tough guy on the streets of Cleveland, his disastrous four-week stint in the Navy and the earliest stages of his life as a writer this is the universal tale of a young man's search for himself through the frustrations, redemptions and complexities of ordinary life.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.