“American Splendor,” which already made a big splash at Sundance earlier this year, winning the grand jury prize, has taken Cannes by storm. This brilliant mélange of documentary and fiction film, in ...

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American Splendor Production: An HBO Films presentation of a Good Machine production. Produced by Ted Hope. Directed, written by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, based on the "American Splendor" ...

Acclaimed comic-book author Harvey Pekar died Monday at the age of 70. He's best known for his autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which was made into a 2003 film starring Paul Giamatti.

The movie American Splendor (2003) adapts Pekar’s comics of the same (which were released between 1976 and 2008), as well as the graphic novel Our Cancer Year, which he co-wrote with his wife, Joyce ...

The late 70’s are a great period in filmmaking. The artists in charge of defining the decade changed the game, giving us Taxi Drivers and Godfathers and Mean Streets to grow up on. They pulled the ...

Harvey Pekar, the underground comic book writer best known for his autobiographical series American Splendor, has died at the age of 70. Pekar lived in Cleveland, OH for most of his life and began his ...

IN "AMERICAN SPLENDOR," the first date between Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner has all the romantic glow and sizzle of cold scrapple. He's a despondent, pudgy file clerk from Cleveland who creates ...

CLEVELAND - Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor" portrayed his unglamorous life with bone-dry honesty and wit, was found dead at home early , authorities said. He ...