Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand. 'Simply stated, American Splendor is the most superb literary endeavor to come off the streets of Cleveland in decades.' ' has a vision that makes daily city life-a ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying bread-dramatic.' proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.' But he is truly more than all of them-he is himself. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. Our Cancer Year is an autobiographical graphic novel co-written by comic book author Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, and illustrated by Frank Stack. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film FestivalĪmerican Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray Two classic comic anthologies in one volumeĪrt by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Brabner and Stack will be featured presenters at this year’s CCC events and will present workshops and class discussions on campus and in the Lafayette-West Lafayette community.The inspiration for the award-winning movie Harvey Pekar, author of the comic book series “American Splendor,” and his wife Joyce Brabner collaborated in 1994 with illustrator Frank Stack to chronicle the true account of their lives in a year spent battling Harvey’s cancer in the graphic novel “Our Cancer Year.” Purdue Galleries is presenting an exhibit of the illustrations of Frank Stack from this touching account, in collaboration with the “ Cancer, Culture and Community” series presented by Purdue Oncological Sciences Center in Discovery Park and the College of Liberal Arts. Our Cancer Year is an autobiographical graphic novel co-written by comic book author Harvey Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner, and illustrated by Frank. Read about the Cancer, Culture and Community colloquium events here. CLEVELAND (AP) - Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book series 'American Splendor' portrayed his unglamorous life with bone-dry honesty and wit, was found dead at home early Monday. October 25 through DecemStewart Center Gallery Ringel Gallery: Selections from the Permanent Collection

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Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar