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What's a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? The story begins in 1976, when Harvey began publishing his autobiographical, slice-of-downtrodden-life comic book series American Splendor, illustrated by a who's who of underground comic artists, including R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Greg Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray. After self-publishing American...

Genre: Comics + Graphic Novels. Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: January 21, 1993. Date Published: January 21, 1993.

Harvey Pekar returns to celebrate 30 years of autobiographical comics with his newest volume.

Pages: 176, Edition: First UK edition, Paperback, Ballantine Books

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini Writers: Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Robert Pulcini, Joyce Brabner Producers: Christine K. Walker, Declan Baldwin Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Pages: 320, Edition: 1, Paperback, Ballantine Books

Following the success of his graphic novel The Quitter, Harvey Pekar returns to Vertigo with an all-new 4-issue American Splendor mini-series, celebrating 30 years of the series that first showed how, as Harvey says, "ordinary life can be pretty complex stuff." First appearing in 1976, American Splendor rose "from the streets of Cleveland" to change the way comics readers and creators viewed the potential of their medium. The series won an American Book Award and became an Oscar-nominated film. In...

Based on the life and work of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar - a prickly poet of the mundane who knows that all the strategizing in the world can't save a guy from picking the wrong supermaket checkout line.

American Splendor immerses the viewer in the life and worldview of Harvey Pekar: file clerk, working-class intellectual, obsessive-compulsive collector, and creator of the seminal autobiographical comic book series American Splendor. For more than two decades, the pages of American Splendor have documented the mundane tribulations, random experiences and cultural enthusiasms that make up Pekar's day-to-day existence in his native Cleveland, Ohio. American Splendor is based on the true saga of...

Availability: In stock and ready to ship. Close Caption: Yes. Region Code: 1. UPC: 026359203121. Catalog #: DV1976292. Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 (Primary) , English Subtitles , French Subtitles , Spanish Subtitles. Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic 1.85. Features:. Audio commentary: Group audio commentary with directors and cast (including Harvey Pekar). Documentaries: Road to Splendor Behind-the-scenes making of featurette. Original theatrical trailer, website downloads, animated menus...

Description American Splendor immerses the viewer in the life and worldview of Harvey Pekar: File Clerk, working-class intellectual, obsessive-compulsive collector, and creator of the seminal autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor".For more than two decades, the pages of "American Splendor" have documented the mundane tribulations, random experiences and cultural enthusiams that make up Pekar's day-to-day existence in his native Cleveland, Ohio.American Splendor is based on the true...

Written by Harvey Pekar, art by Dean Haspiel, Rick Geary, Steve Vance, Hunt Emerson, Josh Neufeld, Zachary Baldus, Ty Templeton and Gary Dumm, cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli Harvey Pekar is never at a loss for something to say about any topic. In the concluding issue of this groundbreaking miniseries, illustrated by an all-star roster of comics' finest artists, Harvey visits Chicago, offers his thoughts on the World Cup, and returns to battle another renegade bathroom fixture, among other adventures.

Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Harvey Pekar, Shari Springer Berman, James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander February 3, 2004 DVD Good in good packaging. Language: English. Run time: 100 ... mins. Aspect ratio: 1.78: 1. Originally released: 2003. Ex library copy. Moderate wear on DVD/Case. Typical library, stampings, markings, stickers etc Read more Show Less

American Splendor Movie Plot This is the story of a little-known working-class everyman, and first-class curmudgeon, Harvey Pekar. Pekar finds love, family and a creative voice through the underground comic books he writes, but still can't manage to find the quicker supermarket checkout line. Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. Pekar is a frustrated file clek at a Cleveland V.A. hospital, but also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create...

Harvey Pekar, the hilariously downtrodden Cleveland comic book artist, is the subject of AMERICAN SPLENDOR, titled after Pekar's autobiographical series. Played by actor Paul Giamatti, Pekar also appears as himself, giving the film a documentary feeling with many behind-the-scenes on-set shots. Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini maintain this balance between the actors and the real-life characters--Pekar's wife Joyce and coworker Toby also appear on set as themselves--while crafting...

What’s a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? The story begins in 1976, when Harvey began publishing his autobiographical, slice-of-downtrodden-life comic book series American Splendor, illustrated by a who’s who of underground comic artists, including R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Greg Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray. After self-publishing American...

This oversized, deluxe volume celebrating the exquisite spectacle that embodies the excellence of American Ballet Theatre, recognized by Congress as "America’s national ballet company," presents the unfolding beauty, grace, agility, and sheer force of its most recent productions. Distinguished photographer Nancy Ellison depicts such enduring ballet classics as La Bayadère, Othello, The Sleeping Beauty, Manon, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and Giselle, and captures the virtuosity of such unforgettable...

. Hard Cover. First American Edition. ISBN:0-8478-1353-3. Translated from the Spanish by Michael Heron. Color illustrations tipped in. Includes bibliography. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.