“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 ...

Fantasy vied with reality on Sunday as the American Film Institute named the year’s 10 best films, listing epics like “The Last Samurai” and the final installment of “The Lord of the Rings” alongside ...

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 ...

Acclaimed cartoonists Josh Neufeld and Dean Haspiel have teamed up to launch Scene by Scene, a podcast devoted to the film American Splendor, the award-winning 2003 movie based on the life and work of ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: In honor of 12 Years A Slave, The Fifth Estate, Kill Your Darlings, and Camille Claudel 1915 ...

Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book American Splendor attracted a cult following for its unvarnished stories of a depressed, aggrieved Everyman negotiating daily life in Cleveland and ...

“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 ...