CLEVELAND--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 ...

Harvey Pekar, the cartoonist behind American Splendor, died this morning at his Cleveland home at the age of 70. Memories of Pekar are already flooding the Web, along with official obits (The New York ...

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

The movie American Splendor (2003) adapts Pekar’s comics of the same (which were released between 1976 and 2008), as well as the graphic novel Our Cancer Year, which he co-wrote with his wife, Joyce ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. While the comics world mourns the loss of Harvey Pekar, there is not yet word on the cause of the writer's death. He suffered ...

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 ...

Joyce Brabner, writer, editor, and activist, likely best known for her longtime role in the American Splendor comic books written by her late husband, Harvey Pekar, has passed away at the age of 72.