July 13, 2010

Harvey Pekar, RIP

Here's my 2003 review for The American Conservative of American Splendor, in which Paul Giamatti portrayed the underground comic book writer.

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12 comments:

dfadfsdf said...

Great movie.

7/13/10, 12:17 AM
l said...

Pekar would have remained a complete unknown were it not for Crumb's love of weirdos and losers.

7/13/10, 2:58 AM
MQ said...

Love the R. Crumb quotes. Now there's a genius...great movie made about him too ("Crumb").

7/13/10, 6:50 AM
Anonymous said...

I heard that Harvey's brother Harry Pekar was a real dick.

7/13/10, 9:02 AM
Matt G. said...

I had never heard of Harvey Pekar but I saw this movie after hearing all the critics raving about it. It's a well written well acted movie, but I found it utterly depressing. After watching the movie I had no desire to read any of Pekar's work.

7/13/10, 9:33 AM
snootybaronet said...

He was a great guest of Letterman's on his NBC show but Dave eventually turned against him.

I guess HP wasn't far enough to the Left for Dave.

7/13/10, 10:00 AM
Jason said...

One of the best movies for understanding Ohio ever made.

7/13/10, 10:35 AM
Disgruntled said...

I've always found American Splendor a great "feel good" movie.

If something isn't going well in my life, I watch it and say to myself, at least I don't live in Cleveland! And then I go surfing.

7/13/10, 8:23 PM
TGGP said...

Your point about the "post-modernism" of the middle ages is echoed here.

7/13/10, 9:08 PM
Dutch Boy said...

Only in America could that schlemiel Pekar be a celebrity!

7/14/10, 9:36 AM
Correction said...

One of the best movies for understanding CLEVELAND ever made.

7/14/10, 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...

I think you missed the mark in that review, at least of the comic book part. It' a deeply personal and, I guess, representative view of a shlub living in the 1960's-70's. I was born later. The stories are interesting because they are real. It's not genius, it's just pertinent to my interests, at least.

7/14/10, 2:30 PM

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