Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar is best known for his graphic autobiography, American Splendor, on which comic artist Gary Dumm collaborated.


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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman
Hill and Wang

Harvey Pekar’s mother was a Zionist by way of politics. His father was a Zionist by way of faith. Whether Harvey was going to daily Hebrew classes or attending...


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Available 7/3/2012
The Beats

Text by Harvey Pekar et al.; Art by Ed Piskor et al.
Hill and Wang

In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic...


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Students for a Democratic Society

Written (mostly) by Harvey Pekar; Art (mostly) by Gary Dumm; Edited by Paul Buhle
Hill and Wang

By the late 1960s, America felt like it was teetering on the edge of a vast transformation. Helping push it over that edge was a brigade of young radicals, the...


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