LEAVE ME ALONE!, A JAZZ OPERA BY HARVEY PEKAR AND DAN PLONSEY, TO PREMIERE AT THE OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND VIA WEBCAST ON JANUARY 31, 2009 American Splendor Icon Pekar Focuses His Sardonic ...

Cleveland, Ohio-based tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda teams up with his "Detroit Connection," a rhythm section of Motor City jazz stalwarts, on Blues for Pekar, a swinging mainstream set that bursts to ...

Pekar's work, memorialized in the movie American Splendor, is an ongoing chronicle of his life in all its quotidian glory. Until now, he's only written nonfiction vignettes of his life as a ...

Harvey Pekar, star of a long-running comic-book series he writes and others illustrate, is reminded early in American Splendor that he’s no superhero. It’s Halloween, and the eleven-year-old Harvey, ...

If I had my druthers I’d do a universal search/replace on the Internet, find all instances of Harvey Pekar, who died one year ago at age 70, being lazily labeled a “curmudgeon,” and switch each ...

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 ...

Harvey Pekar, the Veterans Administration hospital file clerk who never left Cleveland even after becoming famous as a comic book writer and late-night talk show curmudgeon, has died at the age of 70.

Harvey Pekar revolutionized comic books in 1976 with the debut of "American Splendor," autobiographical stories that celebrated his mundane life as a Cleveland file clerk in a medium populated with ...