“American Splendor” represents a bold deconstruction of the fatigued biopic form. Not content to present the Cleveland-based Pekar’s life as anything resembling a straightforward narrative, Berman and ...

“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 ...

At the beginning of American Splendor, a v.o. narration by the real Harvey Pekar describes the man portraying him in the film. “This guy here, he’s our man, all grown up and going nowhere,” says Pekar ...

For directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, both documentary filmmakers, the critical success of American Splendor is beyond their conception of a Best Case Scenario. They didn't plan for ...

At the opening of “American Splendor,” protagonist Harvey Pekar ” comic-book artist, depressive, cancer survivor ” issues a warning about the film. “If you’re the kind of person looking for romance or ...

“American Splendor”There are lots of guys like Harvey Pekar among us. Odd, neurotic, fascinating, insecure, gifted and even a little paranoid, they toil away at mundane jobs in relative obscurity.

Comic book writer Harvey Pekar was found dead Monday morning at his home in Cleveland. He immortalized that city in his work, which critics compared to that of Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. The cause of ...

I'm proud to announce that fellow cartoonist Dean Haspiel and myself have launched a new weekly podcast: Scene by Scene with Josh and Dean. Debuting today, Scene by Scene focuses on the award-winning ...

Harvey Pekar, who died Monday at the age of 70, should be the patron saint of soreheads. Even when he got successful he stayed cranky, maybe because being a crank was what made him successful. Not ...

The semi-legendary cult comic-book writer Harvey Pekar is more generous and open than you’d expect a crank to be. And Pekar is a crank. His “American Splendor” comics — which he has been writing since ...

“American Splendor” begins in 1950 but freely jumps back and forth in time, allowing particular events to trigger memories — the way Pekar himself might tell us his story over a burger at some ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I don’t quite know what I expected when I settled in to watch this first quasi-narrative film from husband-wife documentary team ...