{"id":7494,"date":"2010-07-16T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2010-07-16T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:29:54","slug":"harvey-pekar-1939-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Pekar, 1939-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistyreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/harv03.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7495\" title=\"harv03\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/harv03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/harv03.jpg 500w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/harv03-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvey Pekar, above, the renowned comics writer whose life&#8217;s own banalities formed his narratives, died from prostate cancer, Monday, at the age of 70.<\/p>\n<p>A mainstay and elder of the underground comics movement, Pekar was an oft and early collaborator with artist Robert Crumb. Yet the Ohio native worked as a Veterans Administration hospital file clerk most, if not all, of his adult life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/rhpg\/egoandhubris\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7501\" title=\"51d7nhzgh7l_ss500_6\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/51d7nhzgh7l_ss500_6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/51d7nhzgh7l_ss500_6-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/51d7nhzgh7l_ss500_6-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/51d7nhzgh7l_ss500_6.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>It was only after retiring in 2001, that his <em>American Splendor<\/em> series\u2014turned into a 2003 film starring Paul Giamatti as Pekar\u2014brought him mainstream fame and acclamation.<\/p>\n<p>I met Pekar at our WBAI studios on Wall St. in 2006, when he was promoting his latest <em>American Splendor<\/em> book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/rhpg\/egoandhubris\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Ego &amp; Hubris: The Michael Malice Story<\/em><\/a>, right, with its namesake subject, the contrary blogger and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overheardinnewyork.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Overheard in New York<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The late Harvey Pekar, and Michael Malice, are the guests today on this rebroadcasted edition of my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, July 16th, at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear their ideas by tuning in at 2 pm ET. If you&#8217;re outside of the New York tri-state, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\"  target=\"_blank\">our live stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, dig into <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.wbai.org\/allshows.php\"  target=\"_blank\">our archives<\/a> for up to 90 days after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Pekar, above, the renowned comics writer whose life&#8217;s own banalities formed his narratives, died from prostate cancer, Monday, at the age of 70. A mainstay and elder of the underground comics movement, Pekar was an oft and early collaborator with artist Robert Crumb. Yet the Ohio native worked as a Veterans Administration hospital file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52,13,70,51,18,42,47,56,8,50,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}