One of the first writers to think that everyday life could provide the basis for comic book stories, he hired various cartoonists (most notably Robert Crumb) to do the drawing.
A real-life file clerk in a Cleveland hospital, Pekar has been documenting the day-to-day idiosyncracsies of his life and work since 1976 in the cult comic series American Splendour. Frank Stack’s scratchy monochrome brush and pen work lend the panels an air of anxiety and disorder. Our Cancer Year portrays the diagnosis and treatment of Harvey Pekar’s lymphoma against a backdrop of domestic upheaval and the momentous political and social events of the first gulf war. National Library of Medicine Graphic Medicine Exhibit.
Essential Graphic Medicine: An Annotated Bibliography.A Graphic Medicine Conversation with Sam Hester.
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