Anybody out there ever read American Splendor? It’s a mostly autobiographical comic series written by Harvey Pekar, and drawn by Robert Crumb, Joe Sacco, and many others.
I was browsing around on IMDB and it looks like it’s in development as a TV movie. I don’t know if it’s going to be on network TV or cable TV, but it should be interesting to see how Paul Giamatti cuts it in his protrayal of Pekar.
Oh, yeah. I have all the issues, going back to #1 in 1976, up until about 1990 or so. I lost interest in Pekar when he started milking his David Letterman connections.
Crumb and Sacco are the best known of the illutstrators, but I always loved Gary Dumm’s artwork most…he did most of the first issue all by himself, he’s a native Clevelander like Pekar, AND he used to work up on the second floor of Kay’s Books, the great old used bookshop on Prospect Ave.
Make a teevee movie out of it? The life and times of a working-class intellectual file clerk in a grungy midwestern industrial city? Who greenlighted THAT?