In 2004, San Fransisco professional yo-yoer, cartoonist, musician, nerdcore rapper, tailor, crafster, and clothing designer, Doc Pop interviewed celebrated comic writer and grandfather of the autiobio comic, Harvey Pekar. Doc wrote and penciled a strip based on the interview, and Sean Tenhoff inked it. Check out Doc’s site for the full interview.
(artwork Doc Popular)
In an exclusive preview to Smith Magazine’s current Next Door Neighbor feature, New York Magazine’s culture and entertainment blog, Vulture, is currently running a quite exclusive collaboration by Harvey Pekar and Rick Veitch from that series. For one week only, afterwards it gets published on Smith.
(again, thanks to Heidi for this quite exciting bit of news)
This comic was published in the New York Times, on September 16, 2004. The art is by long-time Pekar collaborator Gary Dumm.
(Story © 2004 Harvey Pekar, art © 2004 Gary Dumm)
I like Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor stories very much, and I’ve been trying to collect the original editions for a while now. However, I think that Harvey is in his prime when he does short, non-fictional, review-like comics, like the two I’m presenting here.
The tribute to Marlon Brando, above, is from Entertainment Weekly (July 17, 2004), and was illustrated by Gary Dumm. Below is an ode to Ohio, from the Washington Post (October 31, 2004), also with art by Gary Dumm.
Bad Behavior has blocked 2962 access attempts in the last 7 days.
