The late Pekar celebrates, to the extent the obligatorily morose underground cartoonist was capable of celebrating anything, his hometown of Cleveland and the life he spent there. After a pocket ...

Harvey Pekar died this week. He was a frequent guest on Weekend Edition over the years, and he was well-known to millions of fans through the comics and graphic novels he wrote. Harvey Pekar died this ...

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Harvey Pekar was always thinking and writing and working, so everyone knew there was large stockpile of unpublished Pekar work out there. How many graphic novels was he working on? What about “The ...

Harvey Pekar—known for his popular comic-book series American Splendor—died Monday at the age of 70. During his career, he collaborated with cultural historian Paul M. Buhle, professor emeritus at ...

Joyce Brabner, comic book creator and widow of Harvey Pekar, is raising money for a memorial to her late husband on Kickstarter. She intends to raise $30,000 to fund a "Comics as Art & Literature" ...

Writing in Rolling Stone about "The Genius of Harvey Pekar," Douglas Wolk begins, "A lot of people know that Harvey Pekar, who died on July 12, 2010 at the age of 70, was an important figure in ...

'American Splendor' creator Harvey Pekar died in 2010. By Graeme McMillan Two previously unpublished stories from American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar will see the light of day for the first time ...

Since the death of Harvey Pekar July 12, tributes to the Cleveland writer have poured in from all over the country, most of them highlighting how his often morose work embodied the dilemmas of the ...

It is hard to believe it has been five years since we lost legendary comics writer and Cleveland icon Harvey Pekar. He may be gone, but he’s certainly not forgotten — especially in his hometown. To ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS--The late Harvey Pekar will soon become a permanent fixture of one of his most beloved haunts; the Lee Road branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library. A ...