![]() ![]() A film version of American Splendor was released in 2003, starring Paul Giamatti as Pekar. Pekar enjoyed a brief and uneasy fame in the 1980s as an occasional guest of Late Night With David Letterman. Crumb, who first met Pekar in Cleveland in the 1960s and encouraged him to turn the stories he gathered on his travels through the city into comics. Pekar co-wrote the graphic novel 'Our Cancer Year,' published in 1994, with his wife Joyce Brabner, who became his. A wide range of illustrators contributed to its pages, most famously R. Ordinary Life Was Hard Enough For Harvey Pekar Harvey Pekar died this week. Pekar was best known for his on-again, off-again comics series “American Splendor,” whose title deliberately contrasted with the everyday people it documented (often the author himself). Pekar was given a diagnosis of lymphatic cancer in 1990, an experience he documented in the graphic novel “Our Cancer Year.” An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. ![]() ![]() He was seventy.Ī spokesman for the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s office told the Plain Dealer that Pekar was found dead by his wife, Joyce Brabner, at around 1 AM. Harvey Pekar, the writer who spun the details of his own life and the quotidian existences of his fellow Cleveland residents into comic-book narratives, and who showed that the comic-book panel could include everyday feelings of anxiety and disappointment as easily as it does the adventures of costumed heroes, has died, | / metro/ 2010/ 07/ clevelandcomic-book_legend ha.html|The Plain Dealer| of Cleveland reports. ![]()
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