American Splendor Our Movie Year
by Harvey Pekar
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Read in May, 2008
recommended to Molly by:
Anthony Bourdainrecommends it for: Michael and other Midwesterners
The best thing about Pekar is Pekar. What I mean is, man, how fabulous is it that this totally intelligent, well read, erudite guy exists representing the "blue-collar" person? He's sincere in calling himself common and everyday. If he was really as common as he thinks he is, America would be filled would a much higher quality of mind than it currently is.
For the record: I do not think America is the anti-intellectual pit many suggest. I just think Harvey Pekar is above the ave...more
For the record: I do not think America is the anti-intellectual pit many suggest. I just think Harvey Pekar is above the ave...more
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Read in July, 2007
For some reason I have been avoiding the American Splendor comics. I finally picked up this one the other day at the public library (which has a quite nice "adult" comics selection). I liked it ok and will check out other American Splendor collections, but I can't say I was thrilled with this one. There was a lot of repetition; several different comics would be about the same topic and presented in basically the same way. Also there were many comics that were not abo...more
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
Fans of Harvey
This collection tells you nothing new and in fact is quite redundant, often retelling the same story of Harvey's experience in and around the release of the wonderful film based on his life and work. Look for the earlier books and The Quitter.
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Read in January, 2004
Mr. Pekar has been doing strips about his actual every day life for ages now. This book covers the story of having a movie of his earlier work made. Take that, post-modernists!
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interesting collection about the creation of the movie 'american splendor.' i love harvey's commentary, but this comic tended to be quite repititious.
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Read in July, 2008
It's a nice continuation of the story if you've seen the movie American Splendor. Everyone should see it and read this!
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Read in June, 2007
not his best. quite repetitive but still worth a read
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I fron cleveland, I have to love this guy.
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