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American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar
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American Splendor: Our Movie Year

by Harvey Pekar

Series: American Splendor (6)

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Pekar's persona is very endearing. He manages to come off as authentic when he worries about his pension and the future despite the massive success of his movie, no small feat in itself. And you sort of reflexively roll your eyes when he starts sincerely thanking all the movie people he worked with, because the gut reaction is "Hollywood circlejerk," but then you think about it for another second and hey - he's sincerely thanking all the people he worked with. How nice is that? And all the everyday stories from regular lives - it's such an admirable project, although when he gets into less everyday stuff, like lives of the great jazzers, it gets into kind of sub-All Music fact litany with pictures. I think I'd like Harvey Pekar, and I'm as happy that he's been able to live the way he does as I am about Liam's family. ( )
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The height of many Americans' ambition is to be involved with a movie in some capacity, most likely as an actor or actress.
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American Splendor

Harvey Pekar

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From off the streets of Cleveland, the amazing and occasionally regrettable true-life adventures of Harvey Pekar, cineaste.

Harvey Pekar is from Cleveland. This much you know. But with the release of American Splendor, the indie hit film based on his comic of the same name, the world discovered Harvey in earnest. Once Harvey was content merely to flirt with fame. But when fame wanted a commitment, he found himself a household name. Sort of. And, to tell you the truth, it’s starting to bug the hell out of him.

An original, incisive graphic novel featuring the talents of R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Mark Zingarelli, and other artists, Our Movie Year chronicles a whirlwind twelve months in the life of Harvey Pekar. It recounts his rise from the filing room at the Cleveland VA hospital to the red carpet at Cannes, Sundance, the Oscars, and beyond–where Harvey won awards, accolades, and the promise of a bigger paycheck. A lot of funny things can happen in a year, and many of them happened to Harvey. And now everyone gets to read about them in Our Movie Year.

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