{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pekar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4901\" title=\"Pekar\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pekar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pekar.jpg 210w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Pekar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>American comics genius <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvey_Pekar\">Harvey Pekar<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtam.com\/cc-common\/news\/sections\/newsarticle.html?feed=122520&amp;article=7342270\">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 &#8211; for real &#8211; not like most of the dimwits writing &#8216;graphic novels.&#8217;  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<p>His comic books appeared in a series called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Splendor\"><em>American Splendor<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/harvey-pekar-american-splendor-cover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"harvey-pekar-american-splendor-cover1\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/harvey-pekar-american-splendor-cover1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; for real &#8211; not like most of the dimwits writing &#8216;graphic novels.&#8217; Pekar was serious and nervous and funny and angry, with very little separation [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}