The inspiration for the award-winning movie<br>from HBO Films and Fine Line Features<br><br>AMERICAN SPLENDOR<br>The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar <br><br>Two classic comic anthologies in one volume<br><br>Stories by Harvey Pekar<br><br>Introduction by R. Crumb<br><br>Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray<br><br><b>The classic collection of the comics that<br>inspired the movie <i>American</i> <i>Splendor</i>,<br>winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival<br><br></b><i>American Splendor</i> is the world&#8217;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. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky