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Informationen zum Autor Cleveland! Ohio native Harvey Pekar is best known for his autobiographical slice-of-life comic book series American Splendor ! a first-person account of Pekar’s downtrodden life. The series has been published on an approximately annual basis since 1976. In 1987! Pekar was honored with the American Book Award for the series. The series was the inspiration for the film starring Paul Giamatti. Dean Haspiel is the creator of the Eisner Award-nominated Billy Dogma and the webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE. He has drawn comics for The New York Times ! DC/Vertigo! Marvel Comics! Dark Horse! Scholastic! and Toon Books among others. He is best known for his collaborations with Harvey Pekar on The Quitter and with Jonathan Ames on The Alcoholic and the HBO series Bored to Death . He lives in Brooklyn. Klappentext The acclaimed creator and subject of the American Book Award-winning biopic "American Splendor" tells the story of his troubled teen years when he would beat up other kids just to win the approval of his peers. Zusammenfassung The acclaimed creator and subject of the American Book Award-winning biopic "American Splendor" tells the story of his troubled teen years when he would beat up other kids just to win the approval of his peers.
