num_pages: 150
description: The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film FestivalAmerican Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships.
language: English
title: American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
titlecomplete: American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
genres: Autobiography, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Memoir, Biography
ratings_count: 390
series: American Splendor, American Splendor (collected editions)
publisher: Doubleday