Harvey Pekar

Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a wellreceived film adaptation of the same name.

Harvey Pekar and his younger brother Allen were born in Cleveland, Ohio to Saul and Dora Pekar, immigrants from Biaystok, Poland. Saul Pekar was a Talmudic scholar who owned a grocery store on Kinsman Avenue, with the family living above the store. While Pekar said he wasnt close to his parents due to their dissimilar backgrounds and because they worked all the time, he still marveled at how devoted they were to each other. They had so much love and admiration for one another.

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