American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
Language: English
Published by Doubleday A dolphin Book, New York, 1986
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: JDMQuinn Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.JDMQuinn Books
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First Edition, Second Printing. A very nice copy. The previous owner signed in small print on the half title page. On the rear cover a price of 6.95. The first literary comic book is printed on the cover. The record collector story and the one about his name. What comes after the Dining Car? --The Pee Car. Despite this we remained friends. Wonderful movie of Pekar with Paul Giamatti as Pekar and Hope Davis as Brabner.
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- Title
- American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
- Author
- Pekar, Harvey
- Publisher
- Doubleday A dolphin Book, New York
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385231954
- ISBN 13
- 9780385231954
- Illustrator
- Kevin Brown; George Budgett; R Crumb; Gary Dumm; Gerry Shamray
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 2nd Printing
from 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 worlds 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 themhe 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 lifea ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying breaddramatic.
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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From the Publisher
Academy Award Nominee: Best Adapted Screenplay
Writers Guild of America Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner Best Picture and Best Screenplay, National Society of Film Critics
Winner Best Picture, Sundance Film Festival 2003
Winner New Director's Award, Edinburgh Film Festival
5 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
5 Satellite Award Nominations
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