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by Mike Rhode Baltimore Comic-Con is one of the best and friendliest of the mid-size superhero focused cons. Under the leadership of Mar...

Years ago, my friend Dean Haspiel suggested that I interview Harvey for a Small Press Expo panel - that turned into a journal article, and t...

This is a nice letter from one of his co-workers at the VA hospital: A day in the working life of VA file clerk and 'American Splendor...

I actually got a phone call from Australia last night - and I'm old enough to find that technologically marvelous and cool - for quotes ...

Harvey Pekar Was A Person In Your Neighborhood by Glen Weldon July 12, 2010

The official obituary - Harvey Pekar dead: American Splendor comic writer was 70 By Terence McArdle Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, Ju...

It sounds like Harvey just wore out last night. I'm sure tributes and obituaries will be popping up all over this week. I know the Washi...

I've just heard that Harvey Pekar passed away during the night. Some years ago I was asked to fill in and interview Harvey at SPX. I re...

This one's an audiofile so it's going to be kind of hard to cut it out and tuck it in Harvey Pekar: Conversations, but I have faith ...

Here's another interview that's not in my Harvey Pekar: Conversations , in case you want to print it out and tuck it in. Q and A: Ha...

I'm not trying to keep up with all of Harvey's interviews now that the book is finished, but Irving and Kushner have a nice one up...

I found quite a few interviews for my book Harvey Pekar: Conversations , including some that didn't make it into the book for one reason...

This article is by Harvey Pekar's second cousin and glances at family ties - Sidewalk Phantom, By AUSTIN RATNER, New York Times Magazine...

NPR has a good story about it too. Leave Me Alone!, a Jazz Opera by Harvey Pekar and Dan Plonsey, to Premiere at the Oberlin Conservatory O...

Harvey Pekar and Richard Thompson were both born today, supposedly years apart although I don't believe they've ever been seen toget...

In spite of the evidence piling up, this isn't really a blog devoted to Harvey Pekar. I did run across something to mention today though...

In case you do all your comics shopping at a comics store through Diamond's Previews, here's the ad. Oddly enough, I ordered nothing...

...sure Mike Everleth's in the book, but you can trust his opinion. He's only got five pages and the book's more than 200!

Hopefully not in a series, but probably. Print this out and put it in the book. On page xv, in the Chronology, under 1989 - "American ...

I just got a stack of these University Press of Mississippi Fall 2008 catalogues in the mail, which was a surprise, as they hadn't told...