“American Splendor,” which already made a big splash at Sundance earlier this year, winning the grand jury prize, has taken Cannes by storm. This brilliant mélange of documentary and fiction film, in ...

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American Splendor is a comedy documentary with elements of animation and live action that takes a deep dive into the life of famous comic book writer Harvey Pekar and how he came into this profession.

Harvey Pekar, who chronicled his travails as a low-level filing clerk in the autobiographical comics series "American Splendor," which was adapted into the award-winning 2003 film, has died. He was 70 ...

About the script: Combining nonfiction, dramatic and animated scenes, Berman and Pulcini’s “American Splendor” is one of the most innovative scripts of the year; with its tender story of the travails ...

“American Splendor” represents a bold deconstruction of the fatigued biopic form. Not content to present the Cleveland-based Pekar’s life as anything resembling a straightforward narrative, Berman and ...

The semi-legendary cult comic-book writer Harvey Pekar is more generous and open than you’d expect a crank to be. And Pekar is a crank. His “American Splendor” comics — which he has been writing since ...

Following the success of his critically praised, top-selling graphic novel THE QUITTER, Harvey Pekar returns to Vertigo with an all-new 4-issue AMERICAN SPLENDOR miniseries, celebrating 30 years of ...