books by Harvey Pekar

books by Harvey Pekar

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Harvey Pekar

American Splendor: Another Dollar
Harvey Pekar

Vertigo, 2009

Macedonia

Harvey Pekar, Heather Roberson

Villard, 2007

Is war inevitable?
In Heather Roberson, Harvey Pekar has found hope for the future. Maybe this will be the first of several episodes leading to Roberson's becoming Secretary of State, or at least US ambassador. She is the perfect protagonist for this Balkan adventure, a midwesterner who ...

The Quitter

Harvey Pekar

Vertigo, 2006

A Personal Best
For every boy who feeled he failed his father..For Every man who lived in his father's shadow..For every son who craved his father approval and never recieved it..For those sons who felt the guilt of not living up to expectation of his parents... this book is your ...

The Beats: A Graphic History
Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle

Hill and Wang, 2009

In The Beats: A Graphic History , those who were mad to live come back to life through artwork as pulsatingly vibrant as the movement itself. Told by Harvey Pekar and his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and by a range of artists and writers, including feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and Mad magazine artist Peter Kuper, The Beats ...

Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History

Harvey Pekar

Hill and Wang, 2008

Entertaining history of a vital movement.
This graphic history of "Students for a Democratic Society" brings to life an important effort at participatory democracy and protest that had 80,000 to 100,000 activists at its peak in the late sixties. SDS disintegrated for a combination of reasons, some ...

The Best American Comics 2006 (Best American)

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

The newest addition to a best-selling 'best' series
While The Best American Comics represents the newest addition to a best-selling 'best' series, it's a fine pick for any interested in all kinds of comics, whether they be newspaper, magazine, or pamphlets, and stands well alone for all kinds of readers. Harvey Pekar, ...

American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar

Ballantine Books, 2003

"Who IS Harvey Pekar?"
This collection of Pekar writings from the 1970s and 80s was issued on the heels of the film "American Splendor," and it collects some of the best of Pekar's earlier work. Although not exclusively chronological, the presentation of the material gives a good idea of ...

Best of American Splendor

Harvey Pekar

Ballantine Books, 2005

The Saga Continues
Harvey Pekar is one of my heroes! 20 years ago when I was a student at the University of South Carolina, I came across the first American Splendor Anthology in the browsing section of the school's library. This was the book that inspired me to be a writer myself. ...

The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland

Harvey Pekar

Running Press, 1993

Please welcome back Harvey Pekar
This is the second American Splendor Anthology. It features material that was written after the first Anthology came out, plus some older stuff that was left out of the first book. If you like Harvey Pekar's stuff, you will love this book. For people who became ...

Our Cancer Year

Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner

Running Press, 1994

Picking up the pieces
I've always admired Joyce Brabner (I've even, truth to tell, had a bit of a crush on her). I like her writing talent, her passion for justice, her activism, her wit, her nonconformity, her looks, her scrapiness, and her determination to protect and nurture her ...

American Splendor: Unsung Hero #2 (Biography of Robert McNeill) September 2002
Harvey Pekar

Dark Horse Comics, 2002

Daniel Johnston
Philippe Vergne, Jad Fair, ...

Rizzoli, 2009

Daniel Johnston only ever dreamt of two things: he wanted to be a rock star and he wanted to be a famous artist. Amazingly enough, he succeeded at both. Today he is an acclaimed indie music star whose charmingly twisted songs have been covered by the likes of Beck, Yo La Tengo, and TV on The Radio. His artwork appears in galleries throughout the ...

9-11: Emergency Relief

Jeff Mason, Will Eisner, ...

Alternative Comics, 2002

Terrific book!
Everyone has a dark side--it's that frightening part of our personalities that drives you to root for something to blow up and hurt James Bond. It's what makes us "root for the bad guy" at Mel Gibson films. It's what drove us to watch with rapt attention on ...

American Splendor: Another Day - Volume 1

Harvey Pekar, Eddie Campbell Haspiel, ...

Vertigo, 2007

Another Great Day
This is a shorter anthology than the others i've read, but a fantastic one. The art is all top-notch, the stories are great as ever, with a range of flashback and current tales. I've read the other AS anthologies, and knowing the back story on lots of the topics is ...

Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story

Harvey Pekar

Ballantine Books, 2006

intriguing and compelling
I have followed and rated Pekar's work for years -- writers like Pekar, Crumb,Clowes and a handful of others reach the heights of Chekov and even -- perhaps -- Dostoyevsky at their best, and they have contributed to the comic genre being taken seriously. However, I ...