R.I.P. Harvey Pekar
Cleveland comic-book legend Harvey Pekar dead at age 70
Published: Monday, July 12, 2010, 11:05 AM Updated: Monday, July 12, 2010, 1:19 PM
Lonnie Timmons III, The Plain DealerCleveland comics legend Harvey Pekar was found dead shortly before 1 a.m. today. He was 70.CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Harvey Pekar’s life was not an open book. It was an open comic book.
Pekar chronicled his life and times in the acclaimed autobiographical comic-book series, “American Splendor,” portraying himself as a rumpled, depressed, obsessive-compulsive “flunky file clerk” engaged in a constant battle with loneliness and anxiety.
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