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[comics] Humdrum Hero — preview of American Splendor – the film about Harvey Pekar‘The beauty of the comics and the movie lies in the mundanity of Harvey’s life. He worries he doesn’t meet any women, moans about his job, turns his co-workers into characters and chronicles the ups and downs of life with his third wife Joyce, who evinces none of the quality spelt out in the first three letters of her name, only an almost luminous drabness. But as one fan notices: “This is great, man! There’s NO idealised shit in here!”‘

Preview of American Splendor

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2003 at 12:48 pm and is filed under Comics, Movies.

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