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The inspiration for the award-winning movie 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 ...
Nov 7, 2011 · American Splendor, the movie, begins with Pekar (played by Paul Giamatti) losing his voice to a stress-related vocal chord nodule, on account of his second wife ditching him and his "plebian ...
An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic ...
American Splendor on stage With Hollywood's adaptation of Harvey Pekar's quirky saga of everyday life now playing on a DVD player near you, we offer a look at the celebrated stage play that first introduced Cleveland's favorite son to tinseltown's movers and shakers.
Mar 17, 2011 · American Splendor is the world's 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.
AMERICAN SPLENDOR #1. In 2006, comics legend Harvey Pekar brought his unflinching tales of ordinary life to Vertigo with an all-new run of AMERICAN SPLENDOR, the comic that, 30 years earlier, rose "from the streets of Cleveland" and changed how we look at comics. Often imitated but never duplicated, Pekar proved that he still has the power to ...
Film American Splendor mendapatkan $6,010,990 di Amerika Utara dan $1,975,094 di negara lain. Total pendapatan yang dihasilkan oleh film ini mencapai $7,986,084, melebihi anggaran produksi film $2 juta. [3]
