Creator Bio
Harvey Pekar
1939–2010
Harvey Pekar was a Cleveland-born writer and jazz critic. In the 1970s, he devised the autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which was adapted for film in 2003. The author of several graphic novels, Pekar contributed to numerous periodicals. He earned the American Book Award and the regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
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American Splendor
“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…