Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The movie American Splendor (2003) adapts Pekar’s comics of the same (which were released between ...

This month’s selection was an HBO original movie in 2003, but it was made on a relatively low budget for the independent film circuit. In the era before comic-book movies arrived multiple times per ...

Harvey Pekar, star of a long-running comic-book series he writes and others illustrate, is reminded early in American Splendor that he’s no superhero. It’s Halloween, and the eleven-year-old Harvey, ...