On saturday there was a movie on sbs called american splendor. never heard of it before, so i watched it. fanfuckingtastic. aha. now i'm going to try and find some copies of the magazine to explore myself. harvey pekar is its creator. nuts like me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Pekar

Harvey Pekar

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Harvey Pekar (born October 8, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American underground comic book writer. His friendship with Robert Crumb led to the creation of the autobiographical comic book series American Splendor, later adapted as a movie of the same name. Crumb and Pekar became friends through their mutual love of jazz records, and Crumb became the first artist to illustrate American Splendor. The comic documents daily life in the aging neighborhoods of Pekar's native Cleveland, where Pekar worked (throughout his life, even after gaining fame) as a file clerk in a large Veterans Administration hospital...