There have been tons of threads about it.

We already know!

who?

>>18487779

>>18487776
where? There needs to be more grief!

>>18487779
Just look at filenames before you reply.

I didn't know Gargamel died today.

Posting in a sticky without knowing shit about shit.

yay sticky

T.T

sad sticky ;_;

This is worth a sticky?

There we go.

Well you miserable old fuck, I'm sorry to see you go. Godspeed.

This of all things get stickied?

Paul Giamatti?

HOLY CRAP
BEING ONE OF THE FIRST POSTS IN A STICKY.

RIP, Ted from Scrubs

American Splendor ring a bell? No?

What now?

GOD MOD'S ARE GOING STICKY CRAZY THIS WEEK

http://www.avclub.com/articles/who-is-harvey-pekar,43000/

So, I'm assuming this guy kicked it?

He will be missed

T_T

THANK YOU LITTLE BLUE PUSH-PIN! Now everyone will know and not need to make their own thread about this man's passing.

>>18487869
You fucker. LOL

>Mods on /co/

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=eu12sfsx
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ctzk240x

Downloading now. I've heard of him before but never read any of his work.

What? NOOOO!

>something worth being stickied actually gets a sticky

Welcome to bizarro /co/!

OP here, first time I've ever been stickied. I feel more important than ever.

Because his comics weren't in color or about people with over muscled physiques in tight outfits punching each other.

Onward to Hell, brave curmudgeon.

I wasn't a huge fan but I can appreciate what he brought to comics.

He lived quite a while all things considered, and lived a fuller life than most everyone currently browsing /co/ can hope to live, so at least he lived well.

Perhaps someday we'll all be reading his musing on everyday afterlife.

America is a little less splendid now.

Harvey who? Well, not sure how to feel about this, he was important? I for one haven't heard about him untill now, could have something to do with the fact that I am not American.

Godspeed, Harvey!
May you be stealing records in heaven. Successfully.
(Comic Book Confidential)

>>18487886

You're right it's not Avatar Time with Finn and Jake enough for this board.

Take care, Harvey.

Thanks for everything!

Damnit, now I'm sad. DAMN YOU MOD

>>18488073
Exactly!

Finally a goddamn sticky.

What's In A Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEUVL0U7QyY

heheh, screencap'd

>>18488049
He's an underground comic creator who did semi-autobiographical commentary on American life. His most notable collaboration was with Robert Crumb.

Hey, why not.

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Rest in peace you miserable old fucker. I hope the afterlife treats you better than this one did.

Godspeed.

70 years is pretty good, but it feels bad ,man.

Because instead of "BOOHOO NEVAR FORGET LET'S HIDE UNTIL IT'S OVER" his reaction to 9/11 was much closer to mine.

I'll miss you, Harvey

He was a bro among /co/

He had a blind to reality 1960s view of any mainstream comics and slobbered over terrible indie zine comics.

Harvey pekar, or why comics are literature too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rBpRa_q_-w&NR=1

I THOUGHT THAT I COULD BE SOMEBODY
IT LOOKS LIKE I WAS WRONG
I THOUGHT THAT I COULD MAKE MY MARK, BUT
I’M AFRAID I’VE WAITED MUCH TOO LONG, NOW

WHERE IS MY AMERICAN SPLENDOR
IN A WORLD THAT’S CLOUDY AND GRAY
WHERE LIFE KEEPS PASSING BY ME
DAY BY DAY?

THEY TOLD ME I SHOULD GRIN AND BEAR IT
WHENEVER LIFE GETS ROUGH
THEY TOLD ME I SHOULD SIT IN SILENCE
BUT NOW I GUESS I’VE HAD ENOUGH, AND

WHERE IS MY AMERICAN SPLENDOR
IN A WORLD THAT’S CLOUDY AND GRAY
WHERE LIFE KEEPS PASSING BY ME
DAY BY DAY?

I’M NO HERO, JUST A GUY
WHO WAS BORN TO LIVE, SUFFER AND DIE
I’M A MAN, JUST LIKE YOU
BUT I’LL SHOUT AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE
‘TILL MY POINT GETS THROUGH

I THOUGHT THAT LIFE WAS ONE LONG STRUGGLE
IT LOOKS LIKE I WAS RIGHT
I KNOW I’LL NEVER WIN THIS WAR, BUT
I WON’T GIVE UP WITHOUT A FIGHT, AND

WHERE IS MY AMERICAN SPLENDOR
IN A WORLD THAT’S CLOUDY AND GRAY
WHERE LIFE KEEPS PASSING BY ME
DAY BY DAY?

>>18488276

So?

>BUT I’LL SHOUT AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE
wow

apt

>>18487758

I live in Cleveland, and I actually went to Harvey's house last summer to have him both autograph my DVD copy of "American Splendor" and my own copy of "American Splendor" #1, which I paid $25 for at a local comic book shop. I was able to go there through my friend, as well as Harvey's close friend, Toby Radloff, who is portrayed by Judah Friedlander in the film version of "American Splendor". Harvey just let me and my father, two complete strangers, into his house without any question at all. It's a memory we'll never forget. He was very kind, and was very open to all of my questions I asked him. He told me he felt he was the reason why Paul Giamatti became a star after the film came out. Either way, he was certainly an amazing local icon, as well as an international one, and I would hope that maybe Letterman would make mention of his name either on tonight's show or tomorrow's. I certainly hope that Harvey is resting in peace as we speak, because for the first time in my life, I am legitimately saddened by the loss of a celebrity.

When David Letterman dies, Harvey will be waiting.

I would very much like Letterman to be the better man and give Harvey a mention, but something tells me he's petty enough that he's STILL pissed over the whole catastrophe.

What happened with Letterman?

how long till crumb goes?

never heard of him

Harvey Pekar.
Wrote ugly comics I never wanted to read.
Picked fights with Letterman and didn't afraid of anything.

All while working as a file clerk.

He comicked for comic's sake.

>>18488482

Probably not. It took him almost 15 years to admit to fucking Bill Hicks over.

>>18488538

Basically Pekar got sick of Letterman making little jokes at his expense while he was a guest, and he went off on a tirade in the middle of the show about how fucked up the American television culture is.

>>18488539
:(

Hicks fucked himself over. Dave definitely fucked with Harvey by not taking him seriously as a human being.

Rest in peace. I enjoyed his stuff, though I never read as much as I wanted.

I can't say i read any of his books but I respect the man for working in the industry

I think he was happier than he let on in his later years. A Wife that loved him, a surrogate daughter, genuine friends and a city that thought enough of him to want to pat him on the back.

I'm sad now...

Yea, a miserable fuck with mediocre drawing ability whose comic had the authorship of some faggots live journal. Good riddance scum.

I've never read American Splendor because it just sounded like another Captain America ripoff, but judging from the reaction here I might give it a shot. Can anybody tell me anything about it? What are his powers?

this guy was a modern day hero if only for this moment in his life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0akXKxbflM

well relatively modern

>>18488893
It has absolutely nothing to do with Captain America or superhero comics in any way.

>>18488416
great story annon

>>18488893
lol you fuck

This miserable, mediocre grump has had his old guy ramblings illustrated by guys like Darwyn Cooke and Alan fucking Moore.

wish I could say that :-/

>>18488871
Nice trolling. Harvey didn't draw.

American Splendor creator, you will be missed =(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J38mp_ON64Y
the awesome combination of /co/ and /ck/--

wait, does Anthony Bourdain count as /ck/ or /trv/??

>>18488997

No clue, but it occurred to me that combining /ck/ and /tv/ gets you a Swanson's dinner.

Anyway, RIP Pekar

Because anything that isn't either never-ending and soulless superhero shit or overhyped hipster garbage is labeled as "pretentious" by 99% of all /co/cksuckers.

Harvey Pekar died?

Does that mean R. Crumb has to get a real job now?

Sad story, bro.

Didn't like his work. Didn't like him. HATED the movie.

doesnt deserve a sticky.

>>18489225
inb4 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Our lives are fucking dedicated to comics and cartoons to disgusting, sociopathic degrees and we can't take a second to appreciate the people who opened one of the many doors that allowed the medium to become what it is today.

way to go, stereotype boardgoers!

To the mod who stickied this...THANK YOU.

"I realize that I’m pretty flawed, but you know – I haven’t killed anybody yet."

I can't believe Paul Giamatti is dead.

>>18489402
hurrrrr

Why'd you have to die at the beginning of the fuckin' week. Makes a shitty Monday morning. I bet you planned it that way, you asshole.

Thanks for everything.

I like how no one's chewed out the OP for
>Y_Y
but then again, sticky.

>>18489491
>chewin out mods for basically nothing

nah bro

I'm sadden by this

Goddamn it, I posted this in new thread, no responses

Also,
>His 1994 graphic novel, "Our Cancer Year," detailed his battle with lymphoma.
>The dreary cover scene shows him sprawled beside his wife on a snowy curbside with shopping bags on the ground. "Harvey, forget about the groceries, honey. Let's get you inside first," she says.

;_;

Took long enough for this to get a sticky!

RIP, Harvey, no one ever made comics like you. Looking forward to what you have to complain about in the afterlife once I get there.

>>18489491
>look at your post
>look at your trip
>my face

>>18489225

Reading this thread would demonstrate that there are more people who think this deserves one than not.

>>18489441
This is...the perfect response to Harvey's death.

>>18489714

He would have wanted it this way.

danny devito noooooooooo ;(((((((((

/v/ is having their 66666666 get.
Go check out the fireworks.

I hate how I can be into comics heavily for two years, but still not have heard of people like him.

goodnight sweet prince

What is going on with posting?

>>18489886
I thought it was just me

Harvey Pekar was a crusty, misanthropic, lonely, bitter, fatalistic and eccentric son-of-a-bitch.

He was also a very real man, a blue collar American icon, and a folk-tale existentialist genius. He was an all-too-human bastard and he was brilliant. I've got tears in my eyes.

/co/ should be ashamed that they are not very familiar with his work. I think Our Cancer Year should be required /co/ reading, if it isn't already.

Goddamn that's too bad. Lost Frazetta this year too.

Harvey was a regular guy who could succinctly describe the crushing depression caused by living in Ohio.
Rest in peace you clerk among men.

>>18489966
So the Drew Carey show was all a lie?

NO!

;_;

He was such a great guy.

>>18490001
He fucked off to join the goddamn marines to get the fuck out of there. What do you think.

>>18489936
Was Our Cancer Year written by Grant Morrison or Geoff Johns? Did Alex Ross do the art? Yeah, not /co/ related.

Thanks for stickying this, mod.
American Splendor was awesome. Sounds like I'll have to pick up Our Cancer Year as well.

>>18490180

...

..... oh, shit i would so fucking read that.

>>18490335
God hates you.

>>18488696
>>18488919

>>18490180
There's a special place in Hell for people like you, and I rest easy with that knowledge.

>>18490180
Alan Moore has ILLUSTRATED a Pekar story.

Think about that.

I posted a thread saying "RIP Harvey Pekar" this morning, where's my sticky?

I am telling you guys right now.

The movie is going to fucking suck.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>18488997
>see this post
>realize I'm watching an Anthony Bourdain marathon
>realize I just watched American Splendor yesterday
>realize I just spent the day at work doing stupid clerical duties
>woah

It's been one of those odd days.

>>18488306
Comics aren't literature.

Posting in a sticky on.....huh.

>>18490630
Pekar wasn't trying to write literature, anyway. He was trying to write history.

>>18490548
They made a movie and it was fantastic.

>>18490651
I know. I love the guy. Its a shame how screwed he got by Vertigo. There probably would have been more if they weren't such money grubbing jerks.

I just hate it when people try to say comics are literature when they're something completely different.

His autopsy was conducted by Frank Miller.
http://coroner.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/Coroner-Dr-Frank-Miller.aspx

>>18490823
How do you know that?

>>18490846
I read the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

oh nooooooo

bawwwwwwwwwwwwww

I salute him. ;_;

Frank Miller died?

Nooooooooooooouw

He was hipster before hipsters was hip ;_;

>>18491068
I refuse to believe in celebrity deaths until Wikipedia does. It's a good policy.

Who's the old looking faggot in the pic?

Didn't write Superhero comics, check
Didn't write for Marvel, check
Didn't write for DC, check
Didn't write for Image, check

Why would he be front page news?

>>18491098
>>18491101
>Hurr i troll u

>>18491152
Hey, he's great. But there's a reason you've not seen a storytime of his work. Because /co/ doesn't read it.

>>18491152
Still didn't tell me who this crusty old faggot is.

>>18491101
So you are admitting that Marvel, DC, and Image make other comics besides superhero comics.

>>18491101
He worked for DC. Vertigo (which is a DC imprint) published American Splendor for a couple years.

>>18491180
The only time I've ever read The Quitter is in a /co/ storytime.

>>18490749
I don't think it's accurate to say that comics aren't literature. Telling a story with pictures is still telling a story. Comics are literature in the same way that theater and opera are literature. The presence of a second medium in the story doesn't discount the first.

>>18487845
Who?

>This thread

Its pretty fucking sad people are trolling this.

>>18491924
No trolling, just wondering who this idiot is supposed to be and why we should care. No one seems to want to give an explanation. So far, all I know is he apparently made some indie comics no one's ever heard of.

>>18492005
The man wrote American Splendor, which I think might've been one of the first indie comics.

>>18492043
Not one of the first, but one of the most influential and longest-lived.

>>18491419

>Telling a story

This doesn't make something literature. Literature is telling a story via text. Comics are telling a story via text and pictures, or no text at all. Neither is inferior to the other, but they are separate mediums and should be judged as such. It's apples and oranges.

>>18492043
>>18492082
Oh. Well ok then.

There's an American Splendor storytime going on in >>18491374 until I get bored.

>>18492141
Basically, the man is as influential and cranky and important to comix as someone like Alan Moore is to comics.

>>18492005

Harvey Pekar was a good friend of Robert Crumb (the grandfather of underground comics. you wouldn't have tits, vulgarity or gratuitous violence without this old perv) and Crumb's noteriety as an underground illustrator who published unedited, censor free works inspired Harvey to write his own comics, the first of which Crumb illustrated himself.

What made Pekar's book American Splendor so prominent was it's blunt, god's-honest autobiographical nature of his own life. Working as a file clerk in a VA hospital in Cleveland his life was mundane, frustrating and full of things to bitch about, most of which he used for material for his comics. I know most of you faggots would think his books to be boring as shit, but it's so rare to see a true glimpse into the life of a real man, to know what true pain and suffering is, and to see life through the eyes of the downtrodden.

>>18492189
Nearly everyone who's posting "I don't give a shit" is either trying to troll or is genuinely unaware of who he is and why he's great. Ignore the former, inform the latter.

>>18492189
Sounds interesting, i'll check it out.

I'm so sad. He was one of my favorite people :(

Here's a review I wrote last year about the final American Splendor trade (that was hard to write): http://collectededitions.blogspot.com/2009/06/review-american-splendor-trade.html

I am pretty upset about this, as you might imagine. Good to see the usually superhero-centric /co/ is feeling the hurt over Harvey's sudden passing. This is a shitty day for comics.

ITT we find out who are true fans of comics and who are babbys and trolls
RIP

god bless American splendor

RIP

Glad he got a sticky

ALL OF YOU ARE FUCKING HYPOCRITICAL ASSHOLES I BET IF A THREAD WAS CREATED ON SATURDAY BEFORE HIS DEATH BASED ON HIS WORK, ALL OF YOU WOULD HAVE IGNORED IT AND NOW WE HAVE THIS, ALL OF A SUDDEN /co/ KNOWS WHO THIS MAN IS AND IS PRETENDING TO HAVE LOVED HIS WORK BEFORE HIS DEATH WELL FUCK YOU, THIS MAN DOESN'T NEED THAT KIND OF SHIT FROM ANY OF YOU

He will be missed by those who were TRULY touched by his work, those that realistically knew the man he was and will hopefully keep him in heart.

ALL OF YOU ARE FUCKING HYPOCRITICAL ASSHOLES I BET IF A THREAD WAS CREATED ON SATURDAY BEFORE HIS DEATH BASED ON HIS WORK, ALL OF YOU WOULD HAVE IGNORED IT AND NOW WE HAVE THIS, ALL OF A SUDDEN /co/ KNOWS WHO THIS MAN IS AND IS PRETENDING TO HAVE LOVED HIS WORK BEFORE HIS DEATH WELL FUCK YOU, THIS MAN DOESN'T NEED THAT KIND OF SHIT FROM ANY OF YOU

He will be missed by those who were TRULY touched by his work, those that realistically knew the man he was and will hopefully keep him in heart.


ALL OF YOU ARE FUCKING HYPOCRITICAL ASSHOLES I BET IF A THREAD WAS CREATED ON SATURDAY BEFORE HIS DEATH BASED ON HIS WORK, ALL OF YOU WOULD HAVE IGNORED IT AND NOW WE HAVE THIS, ALL OF A SUDDEN /co/ KNOWS WHO THIS MAN IS AND IS PRETENDING TO HAVE LOVED HIS WORK BEFORE HIS DEATH WELL FUCK YOU, THIS MAN DOESN'T NEED THAT KIND OF SHIT FROM ANY OF YOU

He will be missed by those who were TRULY touched by his work, those that realistically knew the man he was and will hopefully keep him in heart.

>>18492549
that is a troll post, not all of us pay much attention to who makes comics.

Here's this: grocery shopping with Harvey. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfKup8K4ie4&feature=related

>>18488539

crumb is a spry old man who fucks his giantess amazon jewish princess wife every day, (as well as his other girlfriends). he lives in the south of france, a very healthy environment, and probably eats local produce. he's never smoked tobacco, stopped smoking pot in the 70s and stays busy with his creative projects. i don't see crumb going any time soon.

At least he got a few years of retirement before he kicked it.

A real life super hero.

>>18492714
I ran a Maus storytime and got a great response. Someone else ran a Comic Book Comics storyline largely about comix, and again, great response.

Generally, /co/ thrives on novelty and news, and Pekar wasn't often news. That doesn't mean people didn't appreciate his work, they just didn't have much occasion to talk about it.

>>18492714
...Spambot? Is..is that you?

>You will never post in a sticky without terrible news
>;_;

>get on /co/
>see thread about this guy
>go to sleep
>wake up
>get on /co/
>see thread about this guy
Are we having casting threads for the smurfs movie or something?

>>18492830

I believe this is the clip where Harvey calls Maus overrated and Art Spiegelman a whiner coasting on his father's suffering. What a pimp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On0xtQnjg9M&feature=related

>people think posting in a sticky is some kind of accomplishment

I had a lot of favourite comic writers, but he was the Pekar the bunch

so, uh, why is nobody posting any directdl links to some of his books? at least american splendor #1? pretty please?

Incidentally, a story from the first issue of American Splendor is set in the summer of 2010. Hell of a coincidence.

Storytime of it here: >>18492653

>>18493017

This just proves Harvey is 10x the Comic Book Magician Alan or Grant ever will be.

R.I.P man, "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."

>>18493017

one free internet for you. now can i use this sticky to find out how you do that storytime thing to find certain artist's stuff?

>>18492883
No it isnt a fucking spam bot you idiot, Im calling it out as it is I will fucking cry when Stan Lee dies I love the man hopefully he can push another 4 years so i can meet him in person and im calling it out now and im not afraid to do so, All i know is that when he dies every fucking faggot will pretend to have loved him FUCK THEM is what i say
Jack Kirby was one of them, next will be Steve Ditko
I just love these men as I love my family
>>18492872
That may be true but did you scroll through the whole thread, what the hell, seriously most of them im willing to bet didnt know who he was and some of them admitted to it

"That's my inspirational message for today... feeling rotten is normal."

>>18493007
>>18493124
There are some in the thread already, and links to a storytime. Just search for "megaupload" in this thread. .cbr files are rar files full of images, and can be viewed conveniently with a cbr reader. (Try Google for that.)

>>18493197
Then educate them! Don't berate people for not knowing about everything that's awesome, because nobody can possibly know everything. Share awesome things.

>>18493206

thanks!

>>18493197
>Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko's been dead to the world for more than three decades. As much a genius as he once was, his passing won't really have any effect on the comics world.

And that's awful.

>>18493197

Wait are you saying people will have pretended to love Stan? Because that's crazy

>>18493458

I don't know if that's really how mourning the passing of a great artist works. I mean, none of us were really holding our breath for the new Splendor issue to drop either.

t>>18493254
>>18493254
I tried, believe me but as always our current gen and future gens are too ignorant to educate. A majority are infatuated with that anime crap and have become too stupid to tolerate. Educating these people especially all of /co/ will be hard, I come here because I know a majority of the people here know who they are and how valuable they are to us and a bit for society if your take is on that medium. But here me out and keep this in mind, don't be surprised if all of a sudden after the death of Stan lee, this board or any other site or place in real life will be swarmed by those that magically know who he was, that one person who is a fake, pretentious one. Just the knowing fact that stupid, disgusting sites such as G4, Screwattack and any other of the sort that contain people of this character will just be horrible. As I said, I won't be surprised if this were to happen, and it will be a sad day indeed for those that truly love these people.
I may sound ridiculous at this moment, but that is who I am. I just hope I can meet these men and many others whom I come to respect

>>18493458

I, ah, seriously thought Steve Ditko was dead...

>>18493596
Man, groups are made of people. You'll reach some, and not others. That you can't get all of them doesn't mean you need to give up.

Remember, someone thought Pekar was really great and did something that made it possible for you to see it.

YEAH WELL LET MET TELL YOU SOMETHING YOU LOUSY BITCH

Poor Harvey, rest well

Proof that Ohio can produce important things.

RIP Harvey. You were alright.

He was one of us. He will be missed.

My name is Harvey Pekar - that's an unusual name - Harvey Pekar. 1960 was the year I got my first apartment and my first phone book. Now imagine my surprise when I looked up my name and saw that in addition to me, another Harvey Pekar was listed. Now I was listed as "Harvey L. Pekar", my middle name is Lawrence, and he was listed as "Harvey Pekar" therefore his was a - was a pure listing. Then in the '70s, I noticed that a third Harvey Pekar was listed in the phone book, now this filled me with curiousity. How can there be three people with such an unusual name in the world, let alone in one city? Then one day, a person I work with, expressed her sympathy with me, concerning what she thought, was the death of my father, and she pointed out an obituary notice in the newspaper for a man named Harvey Pekar. And one of his sons was named Harvey. And these were the other Harvey Pekar's. And six months later, Harvey Pekar Jr. died. And although I've met neither man, I was filled with sadness, 'what were they like?', I thought, it seemed that our lives had been linked in some indefineable way. But the story does not end there, for two years later, another 'Harvey Pekar' appeared in the phone book. Who are these people? Where do they come from? What do they do? What's in a name? Who is "Harvey Pekar"?

As a non american I never heard of him. The first time I did was a few days ago when I was on Cracked, reading the top 5 or something Letterman moments when Letterman tore him a new one. Aside for that, I have no idea who this guy is.

Still, rip.

I just read Our Cancer Year yesterday...

RIP ray romano's dad

>>18494164

He already died a few years ago you douche, and he's awesome.

>>18493895
The whole story is here: >>18494130

Good night, Sweet prince

>>18493890

Harvey would have hated 4chan but loved Anonymous.

Lebron James goes like 3 days ago and now he dies.

Bad day for Cleveland

I hope you rest in peace now Harvey

no way, he hates machines and anything related to machines.

Holy Shit, this guy died not 20 minutes from where I live.

>>18492714
I agree with this, I made at least 4 American Splendor threads in the last year, and they 404'd quickly

>>18494444

Go take pictures of the funeral and/or grave.

You'll be missed Harvey. You made us blue collar slobs feel like somebody.

>>18489531
>Sageing a Sticky

Aw, fuck. I didn't know till I came here. T_T

Who is this? Saging a sticky?

/co/-Ignorance

“Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.”

I'm from the Cleveland area and I can honestly say that Harvery Pekar managed to make it look way more boring than it actually is. Let that sink in.

STRAIGHT FROM THE STREETS OF CLEVELAND

sage

>>18496081

>>18495515
no, Cleveland IS that boring. LIFE is that boring. It may be all fun and shit now since you're young and stupid and an arogant prick. Just try working as a file Clerk for 40 years and then see how you feel about the man's perspectives.

RIP

>Anonymous-nobody comic artist dies
>Diehard mod stickies the thread about it
>Half a day later it doesn't even hit 300 posts

>>18496484
>comic artist

Fuck Pekar died. I just got into American Splendor.

Well he was a miserable guy so I guess he doesn't care too much. I wonder if Letterman will do any sort of tribute.

I'm really sad about this, I liked him a lot. BROhio /co/mrades, salute.

>>18496715
The Quitter is epic stuff.

I'm honestly surprised that /co/, a board that usually cares more about shitty fetish art with comic characters in them rather than comic book writers, cares about Pekar's death.

>>18492714
>I am the superior fan and only I am allowed to appreciate this man.
Good job making his death about you.

>>18497004
This is from someone with the mentality to sage a stickied thread? Really?

Good night you grumpy bastard Pekar.

You showed us all that comics are just as literary as as wrenching as any other art form.

May your legacy continue to live long after they bury your corpse.

I salute you.

HOLY SHIT A STICKY THAT ISN'T ABOUT DC COMICS

I guess all you have to do is die for the mods to take their noses out of back issues of Blackest night long enough to notice.

>BUT I’LL SHOUT AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE
>‘TILL MY POINT GETS THROUGH

So he's going to post this every day until we like it?

whoever the fuck this is

RIP You glorious bastard.

Wait...this got stickied? Mods have returned?

The storytime is up to issue three. Check it out here: >>18497941

WHAT THE FUCK
PAUL GIAMATTI DIED?

I LOVED HIM IN BIG FAT LIAR

"Man looks wherever he can for hope."

Posting in a sticky.

Also, sucks that he died.

ITT: /co/ proves it's just as full of misanthropic trolls as every other board on 4chan.

/co/ is not love, you assholes.

I'll be honest here, /co/. I didn't really read too much of American Splendor. Hell, I never would have known it existed if I hadn't picked up a VHS copy of the movie at a thrift store.

Pekar was a real man. He wrote about real life and the shit he and so many others deal with on a day to day basis.

So yeah, it's not as exciting as all that DC-Marvel Final-Blackest-Night-Crisis fanboy wank-fest you imbeciles drool over every month.

Harvey Pekar wrote about real life, not escapist bullshit written to pander to a demographic of children masquerading as adults.

So you know what? Fuck you, trolls. Write all the "OMG TED DIED" remarks you want. You're not fooling anyone.

>>18499737
>>18499973
Chill out, /co/mrades, and come read along. American Splendor is worth reading or re-reading, whether or not it's new to you. >>18491374

>>18499973

fuck you, alot of people enjoy both types of story. get off your high horse.

>>18496484
>>Harvey Pekar
>>Anonymous-nobody comic artist

10/10

>>18487758
Seriously, who is this fag and why should I care if he died?

RIP. My brother is bawling his eyes out. He was his hero (he's an aspiring comic book artist, and he showed me "Our Cancer Year" last summer and it changed my opinion about comic books).

Good night.

>>18500247
If mods existed you would be banned forever

>>18500247
He's Harvey Pekar, an influential indie comix author. His main work is American Splendor, an insightful and self-critical autobiography. It's being storytimed right now, or you can download it from links in this thread.

/r/ing a picture of him and frazetta working on a comic in Heaven

I guess in the end he really did achieve what he wanted. He really did get his american splendor. Thats ironic, and makes me happy and hopeful.

>>18500414
this

>>18500321

I am disappoint.

Hey did Harvey really hate Will Eisner? I haven't gotten to read his novels yet, but I remember reading waay back a Wizard interview and he seemed to hate his guts.

>>18501943

I know he had something against Art Spiegelman, but if it turns out he had beef with Eisner, then I'm forced to choose sides and I'm sorry Harv but Eisner's my brah

There's a short-but-representative storytime at >>18497958.

>>18501943

I would have paid cash monies to watch these two feeble Jewish fellas get into a slapfight.

Motherfucker...

He was great. I'm gonna miss the guy.

>>my face when I realized almost half the posts in this sticky are mine

"God, I'm trying to do the best I can but I dunno... I dunno..."

RIP

His performance as the Penguin was one of his best.

now it is

>>18491419
Damn that's a stupid statement.

Comics, theater, and opera are comics, theater and opera. Nothing more, and nothing less. They are their own separate entities with their own set of rules. To say they're something else does them a great disservice and devalues the work created therein. When the work is strong enough to stand on its own merits, it doesn't need to be shoehorned into some other field to garner any sort of respect.

so yea, he didn't do anything great or worthwhile... MOVING ON!

Met him at Wondercon in San Fransisco....
Had eyebrows like caterpillars...

Posting in a sticky.

>>18503243
i, actually, am hiding this sticky thread.

can't stop me doing THAT, can you mods? no you can't no no yeah man no you can't, tonight.

who cares?

flash fact, most of you faggots wouldn't even know who the fuck this guys is if you didnt hear about it from a movie. this guys has literally contributed next to shit and is only remembered for being a subject in a god damn movie.

What?

He died?

Fuck.

I don't pride myself on being well read when it comes to comics so I don't have a problem telling you that my first exposure to Pekar was the movie.

Anyhow, it was actually at a very rough point during my early twenties. Lots of shit I'll mow over, but chiefly on top of the shit pile was the death of my older brother.

I spend a lot of time writing and drawing to make comics. It's a passion of mine, but that dream's been bobbing in some choppy waters. Depression, drinking problem, whatever, right?

Rereading American Splendor encourages me to keep plowing on ahead regardless. You might not ever be famous and you may never leave the town you've been in your whole life...

But, fuck it, you can still fulfill a fucking dream.

... I didn't intend to get all melodramatic and shit.

>>18503709

He was an underground comic icon.

One of those words in that sentence will perhaps hint at why knowing of Harvey Pekar hasn't been gained organically.

I have only been truly upset once before after hearing after a famous person dying (George Carlin) and this is the second time. I really loved his comics and he seemes like a real cool guy. RIP Harv.

>>18488073
You're right it's go fuck yourself.

I still have some of his books in one of my few remaining long boxes (the dude I sold the rest of them to wasn't interested in "Indie comics", pr0n comics or reprints). His bleak and bitter outlook on life will be missed.

paying my respects

I dont even know who this guy is. Shit on his grave i say!

I only knew of the man vaguely and tangentially before today, but watching that Letterman clip reaffirms that he was one of the good ones.

Rest easy you miserable fuck, we'll get back to you soon enough.

Sorry I haven't read any of this guys comics.

RIP though.

In honor of his death, m00t must rename /co/-Comics & Cartoons to /mb/-Mega Babies.

/co/ mods are unfunny morons who fail whenever they try to interject themselves into the boards

>>18505744
Yeah it would make a whole great deal to /co/ if the boards were renamed /mb/-Mega Babies

postan' in a sticky

/co/ mods are unfunny morons who fail whenever they try to interject themselves into the message boards.

>>18505971
>Implying 4chan still has mods

>>18505971
Faggot.

/co/ mods are unfunny butthurt morons who fail whenever they try to interject themselves into the boards.

I swear to god everyone who is shitting on harvey better be a fucking troll. 12 year olds don't know shit about comics.

Who the fuck is Harvely Pekar and why should anyone give a shit?

now, i can download his comics and not feel bad

>>18494541

Why I wouldn't normally step foot in here or v.
Too many assholes who think they "Professor
Geek". I have no intention in learning from
these inflated egos. It's one of the many
reasons why noobs such as myself could
give two shitless fucks about exploring the
comic book medium. You ask for help and
get "Just read this and you'll get it" only to
ask later "Why did this happen?" and get
called an idiot. Besides will anyone start a
Road to Pardition thread? No, only so they
can inflate their egos with newest IRON
MAN CRISES CLUSTERFUCK and be trolling.

>My face when this sticky BARELY passed 300 posts despite being up all day

>>18506758
It's informative about the cartoon industry. Sorry it isn't more pornographic fanwank.

>>18506758

>>18503709

He largely helped create the whole autobiographical/semiautobiographical genre of comic book, which makes him historically significant. So even if you never cared about his comics directly, he greatly influenced the medium. So that's something.

Also, it WAS a pretty good movie.

/co/-Comics & Cartoons to /mb/-Mega Babies

Imagine if comics were more than the genre of superhero.
Taking this medium for more than it appeared to be and telling a well done and personal story was his bag.
I can respect that.

>>18506692
Congrats, you just typed the most pretentious post I have ever see. I mean seriously talking about we are shit because we don't talk about Road to Perdition? Why not choose a comic that hasn't been made into a movie like The Coffin. I hope you never grace /co/ with your presence again since we are so shitty that you never come here anyways.

:(

>>18507131

Please excuse me if my terms may be off,
but your essentially talking to a noob.

Either you didn't comprehend the entirety of my post
or you are trolling, but fuck it - I'll say both. You have
displayed the attitude that tells guys like me to
to essentially, "FUCK OFF". I said Road to Perdition
because it was the only thing who near zero
knowledge of comics I could pull out of my ass
that isn't Superman, X-men, and would be
well outside the realm of status quo. I
personally would love to read American comics,
but (repeating myself) find the process
intimidating.

And no, I didn't say you were shit. I said
the attitude is what one of the direct
hamperings for an individual who wants to
actually explore comics, specifically canon.

What I did not mention was that - yeah -
alternative/Indie comics are a great interest
to me and every time I walk in here I see the
same de facto - Marvel and DC until you guys
here of such and such comic book movie
coming out such as Losers or whiteout and
even then you fuck it up. This sticky is proof
of it, but this problem is beyond just this board.
This problem is in V, too. You want to bring
up cool (and outstanding) game that no one's
heard? Fine, but you're gonna be lucky if
you make it past 10 comments, let alone
five. Anime is the only other board with
problem, but at least they try. I can actually
walk into Anime right now and have great
chance of finding something that resembles
diamonds in the rough.

I'm sorry, but your post proved my point
beautifully and effectively.

postang on a ;_; thread.

I bawww

I a feeling that if Art Speigelman kicks the bucket we will talking about Garbage Pail Kids and not Maus.

Saging in a sticky.
(check out my Michael Jackson avatar)

>>18507955
derp, forgot the image

Finally a good reason for a sticky.
Too bad the trolls and idiots that believe this is /b/.

sage for some unknown fag shit sticky

>>18508389
>sage in a sticky

>>18508389
hahaha oh wow.

This thread... This fucking thread...

Who?

>>18508608
Harvey Pekar American Splendor, you philistine

I saw Pekar speak in Australia a few years ago. He really new his stuff and was illuminating about comics as a form and scathing about one genre ("superheroes are a sub-genre of science fiction") dominating the whole medium.
I'll miss him, I'll miss looking forward to anything new from him.
Haters gonna hate.

>>18507757
Yes, I said basically "FUCK OFF" and I will you tell why.

You mistake this place for a place with mods and very little trolling. You require a place like CBR with mods and boards just for Indy comics. We might be a comics board but this is still 4chan. Hell most of the 200+ threads here are because of trolls trolling trolls, some random fanfic, or just fetish shit.

If you actually wish to get into Marvel/DC comics, one piece of advice I can give you is "Stop worrying about Canon". The main comics are like watching soap operas or professional wrestling.

I can't tell if even half the negative or ignorant people here actually know about him and his work.

>>18509148
They don't, they think they're being cool by being assholes on this thread. It's sad, really.

>>18509148
they don't, which is why there called trolls

>>>/sp/6518987

Guys, we should go cry it out with /sp/. Both of us are hurting.

>>18509148
personally I don't and I doubt I will ever get into it, I don't think that's a reason to make fun of him, his work or you as mourning /co/mrades though.

Get this shit out the front page.

>>18487758
So, Hunter Thompson's been gone for a while, Carlin too and now Pekar.

USA, you're losing all the awesome you used to have.
Soon you'll be a shithole.

>>18509971
Fuck your shit!

>>18510014
Fuck yours. Also that faggot in your picture is overrated.

>>18509971
>>18510150

Damn.

way to be uglier than paul giamatti

Fuck this dead fag Crumb is better

>>18510382
They were bros. No need to thing of them as rivals.

>>18510681
think*

>>18507131

>>The Coffin
I thought I was the only human being on this planet who read that gem of a story. I love you, /co/mrade!

Saw that too. Twas very saddening.

fucking bastards like republican fucks get to live till 90 ,but an average person THIS MEANS YOU will die at 70 if lucky. No justice in this life . Harvey , you will be missed .

>>18510965
I think he would have been happy to have not lived to the age of 90. Hell probably woulda been happier if he died sooner.

godspeed

i heard he was gay

Haha, I wrote about him today in my literature class.

I baw'd a little.

Sad indeed. RIP you old fart

The comic world is darker for having lost his darkness.

:(

>>18510965
Longevity is more contributed to lifestyle and genetics rather than wealth, that is why most centennials are usually East European peasant women

>>this thread
It makes me sad how many ignorant assholes are in /co/,

RIP Harvey

Harvey showed me that it's alright being a miserable bastard if you just give a shit about something that matters to you at least half of the time.

I'm not gonna read this whole thread, just came in to say you guise are a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

Any other time, a thread even remotely smelling of Fantagraphics or some other non-cape publisher would have gotten trolled into oblivion. Hipster this, pretentious that.

I can't wait for the day Burns, Bagge, Woodring or any one of those other dudes croak. The crocodile tears in /co/ are gonna be delicious.

Wake me up when Jhonen Vazquez dies.

>>18512268
You honestly think the people in this thread that like Pekar's work are the same ones trolling other threads with phrases like "pretentious hipster bullshit"? The vast majority of /co/ are here for sexualized drawings of children's cartoon characters and discussion of one-dimensional super-hero comics.

>>18487758

>>18512377
Are you the :smug: emoticon given flesh?

This man looks like an aged George Costanza

>>18512268
Dude, I'm still surprised that there's a sticky that non-DC.

As for what you said, I rarely see any storytimes or threads about said "non-cape comics". How about you and the other guys that are bitching so much about how /co/ doesn't have indy comics threads go out and make indy comics threads while boycotting any and all "cape comic" threads.

You guys need to band together and declare a day as Independent Comics Day on /co/. /co/ is 100% user content so don't blame others when you don't even try to change this place. If they do troll you then don't fucking respond to them if you already know that they are a troll. What can they do but spam and/or try to get you banned.

>>18512507

Clearly you've never seen a Scott Pilgrim thread. What happens in simple. The trolls of /co/ flock to anything that's not one-sided and turn what could potentially be good discussions into monkey shit throwing fests.

The average /co/mrade cannot see past the trolls and their bullshit and instead get pulled down with them.

With the loss of Frazzetta and now Pekar this has been one hell of a bad year for comics.

Give 'em hell, Harv. Capefaggots might not be aware of who you are, but to those of us who are interested in comics as a viable artistic medium you were a godsend.

So why was he being a complete cunt on Letterman again?

>>18512677

Good exposure for his career, I think though people said he was selling out so he said a bunch of shit about the studios on the show and they didn't let him back on

>>18512677
Because he got sick of lettermans shit and wanted to tell everyone what he thought of television culture.

I don't even know what to say about his passing.
Maybe a simple, "Well, fuck..." would do, but Harvey was one of my favorites. His collaborations with Crumb are some of the most entertaining shit I've ever read. He will be missed dearly.

As for this thread, the mods should probably delete it ASAP to stop the trolls.

Now, everyone who hasn't done so, go out and get yourself a damn copy of American Splendor.

I read American Splendor a while ago and I have to say that I didn't get it. I liked the movie though.

>>18512550

They said Concrete by Paul Chadwick was just Ben Grimm being Emo.

RIP Stan Lee

>>18513820
I don't even

>>18513385
there is nothing to get. he was a mediocre hack who surrounded himself with a lot of genuinely talented people and got way more famous than he ever deserved, or was able to handle. there's a lot of autobio stuff that's way better written.

Kudos to mods for stickying this,
shame on /co/ for being so ignorant

>>18513885
But he was the first to do the Auto-Bio thing

/co/-Comics & Cartoons to /mb/-Mega Babies

>>18513885
Him and Crumb basically created the underground comic scene

>>18513885
I know right? Fuck this old dead man for being a huge contribute to the underground scene at least Geoff Johns and Bendis can write a story without WORDS WORDS WORDS

Wow. I really didn't expect the American Splendor storytime thread to last this long. Since it's still here, I'm going to continue issue #3 and see how far I can get after that.

The continued storytime is here: >>18514134

>>18513919
>>18513980
>>18514047

it was revolutionary but it isn't that great. as with most autobiographical comics its success kind of hinges on whether you like the main character, and I think Harvey Pekar's character tends towards idle complaining rather than profound observation. it's just, like, my opinion, man.

>>18514865
I've found that most of the appeals rests in identifying with the main character, not necessarily liking him. He's kind of a jerk, but he's kind of a jerk in ways I see in myself after reading AS.

>>18514942
This

>>18514865
>>18514942

Well, he accepted his life role as the neurotic jew, albiet with a lot more misery involved

>>18512327
Yeah let me know as well, then I will feel better.

But seriously, First you guys lost Lebron, then Harvey Pekar.....wow such a shitty week for Cleveland. Anyway RIP Harvey, you will be missed.

Wow. Yeah, I'm late to the party, but I cannot believe Harvey's gone.

Fuck Steinbrenner. Harvey was a real artist.

Issue #4 storytime starting up here: >>18517054

If you want to start from the beginning, it's still up at >>18491374

http://www.gratismspoints.com/?i=83939

Fail combover. I hope he didnt think he was actually fooling anyone with it.

I read this in the news this morning
Didn't know who he was
I just felt like reading the obituaries today

I didn't know there was a movie about him. Really.

Is it any good?

and not a single fuck was given

>>18519419
Well fuck you.

Holy Shit!!!! When did he die?!?!?!?!?!

ITT: Newfags who don't know shit about comics. SMH

HE DIED?

YOU MEAN NO MORE AMERICAN SPLENDOR?

:(

Second though, that comic was pretty mediocre. He was one of the first hipsters lol.

>>18519839

>He was one of the first hipsters lol.

You're fucking retarded.

>>18519839
The contemporary ones weren't very good. Aside from that, I'VE BEEN GONE FOR TWO DAYS AND THIS SHIT HAPPENS ;___;

>>18519862

Ever heard him give an interview?

Its all "Why does ever comic have to be about super heroes? How about comics about regular people like me and you. I want to make that comic, I don't care if no one reads it."

HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER

not a bad thing in his case though, it worked out pretty well.

>>18519928
I don't think it counts if he has been making comics for decades before the term "hipster" even existed.

Who is this asshole; why should I care he's dead?

>>18519928
>HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER

You are now aware that he's been doing this since the mid-70's.

>>18519984
Hipsters are hipsters no matter their era

>>18519928

Uhh...not really. There was nothing ironic or condescending about Harvey Pekar. It wasn't an act. That's the whole point. Plus he was doing this in the 1970s, when it really was a radical departure from Marvel and Mickey Mouse and stuff like that.

That's like calling Crumb a hipster because he wears hats and listens to old jazz records no one has listened to in 70 years.

For some people, being a loser with a dead end job is not an affect to be put on because you can always go back to grad school. Harvey couldn't, he was stuck at the VA.

>>18519984

published in 1976

I think its safe to say he was either the first hipster to make comics, or someone approximately equal to a hipster who made comics in 1976

again, not a bad thing in this case. American Splendor isn't half bad. Especially considering he made it in Cleveland which would be difficult for anyone.

>>18512268
wouldnt it make more sense that the people who like pekar are more likely to post in this thread than one full of trolls and haters?

I'm not sure how we ended up with the same stupid "What is a hipster? A miserable pile of secrets" troll thread here.

In any event, the storytime is still going on here: >>18514134

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk6oPsKZG_w

HAHAHAHA

IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU SON OF A BITCH

LETS GET A TOP TEN REASONS WHY THE WORLD WILL BE BETTER OF WITHOUT PEKAR LIST GOING

>>18520377
If you don't laugh like a jackal at this, you're too goddamned young for /co/.

>>18520430
Really? Who here watched Late Night in the late 80's?

I only got the reference because I saw reruns on that weird, defunct "pop culture" channel.

>>18520486
Hyperbole is hard, yo.

>>18520486
spoiler you dont have to be old as dirt to know the life story of pekar. chances are most of this thread is too young for his comics anyway...

>>18520570
Cool story, bro.

RIP

Goodnight... ;_;

>>18513820
>They said Concrete by Paul Chadwick was just Ben Grimm being Emo.

I'm sorry but this made me LOL so fucking hard.

shoes

I'd be more moved if people would post more of his stuff

Go right ahead anons

>>18522618
Eh?

>>18522716
posting it here will prevent fags from making a troll thread on /co/

>>18522910
like "man, the whole Iron Man Adventures Teenage thing is going too far. really, who wants to watch a show about Hank Pym in High School?"

http://5z8.info/horse-slaughter_w7j8m_facebook-hack ---> EPIC!

>>4607

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>>6017