Harvey Pekar

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0345479386
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best of American Splendor written by Harvey Pekar and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the comic-book series American Splendor presents a collection of his finest works, including his zany commentaries on the complexities of modern life, all illustrated by some of the leading artists in the field. Adult.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604730852
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvey Pekar written by Harvey Pekar and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the creator of American Splendor, the longest-running autobiographical comic book series produced in America

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781603090919
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvey Pekar's Cleveland written by Harvey Pekar and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a brief history of the city before the author's birth in 1939, then focuses on the author's life in the city and the ups and downs it faced during those seventy years.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Day written by Harvey Pekar and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Harvey Pekar Cover by Dean Haspiel Art by Haspiel, Eddie Campbell, Ty Templeton and others Harvey Pekar returns to celebrate 30 years of autobiographical comics with his newest volume collecting the 4-issue acclaimed miniseries. Advance-solicited; on sale April 7 - 136 pg, B&W, $14.99 US - MATURE READERS

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307415112
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ego & Hubris written by Harvey Pekar and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.” –Harvey Pekar Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland? First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager. One day Michael, a guy with a patchwork employment record and dreams as big as his ego, meets Harvey and begins to relay all these wild stories about his life. Simple as that. Harvey thinks the guy is bright but a bit of a riddle–though not the kind wrapped in an enigma. It’s strange. He seems like the type of person you meet every day, rather ordinary, until you really get to know him. Then you realize he’s exceptional, unusual, and contradictory. Pleasant one minute, really nasty the next. But isn’t cruelty part of human nature? We digress. . . . Harvey writes up and illustrates one of Michael Malice’s tales, “Fish Story,” which is part of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It makes a splash and spawns this book, Harvey’s first hardcover, a graphic novel event about one guy’s life. Ego & Hubris relates how, a year and a half after his birth in the Ukraine, Michael Malice moved with his parents to Brooklyn. He’s an intransigent kid, a hard-ass–both a demon to and demonized by the people who cross his path. His life is a constant struggle for validation in a world where the machine keeps trying to break him down. But Michael has a way with people . . . or rather, has a way of getting even with people. Hey, if you can’t live up to your parents’ expectations, at least you can live up to your name. Michael had never come close to fulfilling his huge dreams–until now. And just as Harvey’s been the everyman for a certain generation of graphic-novel readers, Michael Malice will be the everyman for a new generation. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quitter written by Harvey Pekar and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Suggested for mature readers"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809074044
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me written by Harvey Pekar and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Pekar’s mother was a Zionist by way of politics, his father by way of faith, and he inevitably grew up a staunch supporter of Israel. But as he became attuned to the wider world, Pekar began to question his parents’ most fundamental beliefs. This book is the full account of that questioning. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT Waldman wrestle with the mythologies passed down to them, weaving a personal and historical odyssey of uncommon wit and power. With an epilogue written by Joyce Brabner, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me is an es- sential book for fans of Harvey Pekar and anyone interested in the past and future of the Jewish state.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595583211
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studs Terkel's Working written by Harvey Pekar and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforms sixteen short oral histories originally published in "Working" into graphic novel vignettes, including stories from a stock broker, a labor organizer, a proofreader, a gravedigger, a mail carrier, and a jazz musician.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9781568581019
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bob and Harv's Comics written by Harvey Pekar and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 1996-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here are the collected works of the titans of adults comics — legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb and the "high priest of comic-book naturalism" (Newsweek) Harvey Pekar. The comic collision of these underground luminaries is funny, obsessive, ever-so-slightly neurotic, but always biting and honest.

Author : Harvey Pekar
Publisher : Ballantine Group
ISBN 13 : 0345543408
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly" written by Harvey Pekar and published by Ballantine Group. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an appreciation by Anthony Bourdain HAVE ATTITUDE, WILL TRAVEL Harvey Pekar changed the face of comics when his American Splendor series replaced traditional slam-bang superhero action with slice-of-life tales of his own very ordinary existence in Cleveland, Ohio, as a file clerk, jazz-record collector, and philosophical curmudgeon. Much as Seinfeld famously transcended sitcom conventions by being “a show about nothing,” Pekar’s deadpan chronicles of regular life—peppered with wry and caustic reflections—have transformed comics from escapist fantasy into social commentary with voice balloons. Huntington, West Virginia “On the Fly” is prime Pekar, recounting the irascible everyman’s on-the-road encounters with a cross section of characters—a career criminal turned limo-driving entrepreneur, a toy merchant obsessed with restoring a vintage diner, comic-book archivists, indie filmmakers, and children of the sixties—all of whom have stories to tell. By turns funny, poignant, and insightful, these portraits à la Pekar showcase a one-of-a-kind master at work, channeling the stuff of average life into genuine American art.