Best of American Splendor
 

Best of American Splendor

by Harvey Pekar

Experience the heartwarming all-American story of a crank and his comic book.

What’s a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? The story begins in 1976, when Harvey began publishing his autobiographical, slice-of-downtrodden-life comic book series American Splendor,... (read more)

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Master of the mundane rallys the great cartoonists and illustrators to deliver more anxiety-ridden observations about the mundane glory of real life.

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