This month’s selection was an HBO original movie in 2003, but it was made on a relatively low budget for the independent film circuit. In the era before comic-book movies arrived multiple times per ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The movie American Splendor (2003) adapts Pekar’s comics of the same (which were released between ...

Pic’s orchestration delivers nary a false note. Late in the film, Pekar recounts the conundrum of once discoveringhe was not the only Harvey Pekar in the Cleveland phone book: “What’s in a name?” he ...

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, ...

Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor" portrayed his unglamorous life with bone-dry honesty and wit, was found dead at home early Monday, authorities said. He was ...