Alan Moore Wants to Build a Statue of Harvey Pekar in Cleveland (Video)
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Seems like a good cause to me. If you’d like watch the full two-and-a-half hour chat and/or read about the highlights, check out Bleeding Cool:
A few months back Joyce Brabner, the widow of comics legend Harvey Pekar, started a Kickstarter Campaign in the hopes of raising enough money to help fund a Harvey Pekar Library Statue in Cleveland.
Towards the latter half of the campaign it was made known that one of the incentives would be “A Cup of Tea and a Long Winter’s Chat With Comics Giant Alan Moore,” in which Moore would, for the first time, host a live video conference in which he would answer “impertinent questions” …
… Moore was the epitome of congeniality, proving himself gracious, rational and quite funny while speaking to all those present — even in the face of some potentially ire-raising issues (such as BEFORE WATCHMEN or the constant jabs made at him by…
Harvey Pekar & Doug Rushkoff: How Life Got Incorporated
Two pop culture mainstays, comic book legend Harvey Pekar (RIP) and author/media theorist Doug Rushkoff collaborated on a graphic adaptation of Doug’s book Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back for SMITH Magazine as part of the Pekar Project. Part 2 has just been published by SMITH (sample panel below) and if you missed it, you might want to check out Part 1 first. Not to be forgotten, artist Sean Pryor.
Source: SMITH Magazine
Harvey Pekar’s Annoyance of Life; Ended.
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Yep, he’s finally gone, unfortunately. Harvey Pekar – Dead at 70.
Harvey was many things to many people. He did great things in his life, but the one thing he couldn’t do was stop being Harvey Pekar.
The world is better for it.
You will be missed, Harvey.
Story at cleveland.com.
