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Slideshow: Harvey Pekar

Artifacts from the David Bieber archives of the late comic-book writer's work

By DAVID BIEBER | July 15, 2010

Courtesy David Bieber archives

READ: Harvey Pekar, 1939 - 2010.

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Harvey Pekar: 1939 - 2010
Probably the echt moment for me in all the volumes of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor comics comes when the eternally bedraggled and grumpy Harvey receives a fresh package of review vinyl from Downbeat magazine and grumbles about getting yet another Sonny Stitt record.
Lost splendor
In case you haven't heard, LeBron James will play basketball in Miami next season. Yawn.
Review: The Extra Man
Dandy dreamer Louis Ives (Paul Dano) fancies himself a hero in the F. Scott Fitzgerald mold. He's Nick Carraway to this film's Gatsby, Henry Harrison (a fine Kevin Kline), who proclaims himself "to the right of the pope" in matters of sex.
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Harvey Pekar: 1939 - 2010
Probably the echt moment for me in all the volumes of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor comics comes when the eternally bedraggled and grumpy Harvey receives a fresh package of review vinyl from Downbeat magazine and grumbles about getting yet another Sonny Stitt record.
Lost splendor
In case you haven't heard, LeBron James will play basketball in Miami next season. Yawn.
Review: The Extra Man
Dandy dreamer Louis Ives (Paul Dano) fancies himself a hero in the F. Scott Fitzgerald mold. He's Nick Carraway to this film's Gatsby, Henry Harrison (a fine Kevin Kline), who proclaims himself "to the right of the pope" in matters of sex.
Gift Guide 2010: Graphic novels and comic anthologies
There's something about getting a book as a gift that makes you not want to read it.
Odd year ahead for museums and galleries
Remember, for every droopy tarp stalactite that makes it into a museum lobby installation, there are dozens of similar (and similarly impressive) creatures that never leave a studio wall.
Review: R. Crumb illuminates the Bible at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
The Book of Genesis seems like inherently good fodder for R. Crumb's satirical debasement.
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English-born artist Melanie Smith has made Mexico City her home for the past 20 years.
Updike does death, R. Crumb does God, Vanity Fair does Proust
Trying to reach as broad a range of tastes and pocketbooks as possible, we this year scavenged everything from the front pages of the Onion to R. Crumb's genesis, to valedictory Updike. Stuff to read, stuff to look at, glossy pages and matte. Remember: be careful not to nick the pages or spill eggnog on them before you wrap. Happy holidays!
2009: The year in art
The year started off with a kick in the teeth when, in January, Brandeis University announced plans to shutter its Rose Art Museum and sell off its masterpieces.
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