Tag: Harvey Pekar

Joyce Brabner, the co-star of the American Splendor comics and author of Brought to Light has passed away at age 72.

After 30 years, Neil Gaiman's Miracleman is finally getting a collected edition, but the muted reaction says a lot about the current graphic novel market.

The minute-by-minute comics history breakdown you didn't know you needed.

To step into the world of writer Jonathan Baylis’ So Buttons is to step into the best of pure comics storytelling. The acclaimed anthology series—now out in a new edition from Alternative Comics—present slices...

Specifically Derf Backderf's Facebook photos which show the event held on Saturday and the transformation of a dilapidated Cleveland park into a new, vibrant space, all honoring one of Cleveland's not memorable citizens....

Cleveland is getting a park dedicated to its comics laureate, Harvey Pekar, whose long running American Splendor comic captured the quotidian lives of Clevelanders. The celebration will run all afternoon with music and a...

Special correspondent Christian Hoffer went to the SPACE indie comics expo in Columbus and got a lot of comics and met a lot of people. Here's his report.

Z2 Comics just made news last week with a new line of periodicals, and here's their fall graphic novel line, courtesy of Publishers Weekly. The slate includes a collection of Koren Shadmi's awesome webcomic...

Here's the part where you support your favorite comic book creators almost as much you endorse the films they help make possible. Kelly Sue DeConnick's husband, Matt Fraction, will be making his first appearance on...

Joseph Remnant, artist on Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND, channels a bit of that Pekar vibe along with writer Jeff Newelt in this online comics about jazz musician Paul Shapiro, whose new album  VERSES , is out featuring famed guitarist Marc Ribot. It's on John Zorn's TZADIK label, so if you like Masala, you might like this. 

“An Evening with Dean Haspiel”, held at the Cinema Arts Center, in Huntington Long Island on October 4th, was as much a tour of the last twenty years of comics history as a look...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tTjZkumwnk?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Remember that Harvey Pekar Memorial Statue that was Kickstarted and planned to be installed in the Cleveland Public Library? Well, i's going to be dedicated in just a few weeks, on October 14th. In...