{"id":4900,"date":"2010-07-12T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2010-07-12T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:57:17","slug":"comics-author-harvey-pekar-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/07\/12\/comics-author-harvey-pekar-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics Author Harvey Pekar Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>American comics genius Harvey Pekar<\/a> has passed away<\/a> at the age of 70.\u00a0 I think Pekar was the greatest writer of comics because he treated the form as literature – for real – not like most of the dimwits writing ‘graphic novels.’ Pekar was serious and nervous and funny and angry, with very little separation between. His observations of everyday life run a full range from fixing a flat tire in a snow storm to surviving cancer to trying to find a file folder at work.\u00a0 He looked at his life and wrote it all down for his comic books.<\/p>\n

His comic books appeared in a series called American Splendor<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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American comics genius Harvey Pekar has passed away at the age of 70.\u00a0 I think Pekar was the greatest writer of comics because he treated the form as literature – for real – not like most of the dimwits writing ‘graphic novels.’ Pekar was serious and nervous and funny and angry, with very little separation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,78],"tags":[2499,599],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-literature","tag-comics","tag-harvey-pekar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t