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" ...

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 ...

Debuting at San Diego Comic Con is Not The Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic novel by the late Harvey Pekar, and JT Waldman. In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic ...

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 ...

American Splendor is a stunning achievement, a work of such magnificent ingenuity and so abundantly rich with heart and soul, that it is impossible not to be caught up in its near-giddy celebration of ...

Classical statuary dots Cleveland’s husky urban landscape. But there’s no tribute to “the ancient Jewish god of frumpy people,” as Joyce Brabner puts it. Now, the Cleveland writer and artist wants to ...

The comic world lost one of its titans when writer Harvey Pekar died last July. The Cleveland native and son of Polish immigrants chronicled his life -- and the everyman -- in his autobiographical ...

Stand-up comedian and former Yeshiva student Danny Lobell of Los Angeles has just released an autobiographical comic book, “Fair Enough,” which includes the story of his friendship with Harvey Pekar ...

Harvey Pekar died on Monday July 12, 2010, but his death was overshadowed by the death of Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, who died on the 13 th. The two could not be more different, there is ...

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 By Graeme McMillan Two previously unpublished stories from American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar will see the light of day for the first time ...

Comic-book writer Harvey Pekar was found dead, The New York Times is reporting. He was 70. Pekar, who rose from obscurity detailing his blasé life and those of his friends in Cleveland, became the ...

A lot of people know that Harvey Pekar, who died on Monday at the age of 70, was an important figure in American comics; not nearly as many people know why, exactly. He was arguably less famous for ...