by Bill Kartalopoulos
July 13, 2010
Harvey Pekar did not invent autobiographical comics. In the American comics tradition alone, the pioneering female cartoonist Fay King regularly inserted herself as a character in her Jazz Age cartoons and comic strips. Robert Crumb, the illustrator of some of Pekar’s most memorable works, took the self as a subject in several of his own [...]
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by James Gaddy
July 13, 2010
Back in 2003, Print profiled Harvey Pekar in its July/August issue to coincide with the film version of American Splendor. Here's an excerpt from the article, written by PictureBox publisher Dan Nadel: Pekar grew up in working-class Cleveland after World War II, the only son of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Yiddish culture and far-left politics were the [...]
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