Harvey Pekar
American comic book writer and music critic best known for his autobiographical series American Splendor; noted for collaborations with artists such as R. Crumb and David Mazzucchelli and for chronicling everyday life in Cleveland.
Books
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1. American Splendor And More American Splendor
A wry, candid collection of autobiographical comic vignettes that chronicles the everyday life of a working-class Cleveland file clerk—his jobs, friendships and relationships, obsessions with music and comics, encounters with bureaucracy and illness—rendered in plainspoken, often bleakly funny prose and varied collaborator artwork that turns small, mundane moments into sharp reflections on aging, art, marriage and the search for meaning in ordinary life.