# American Splendor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-splendor/118488 "2002-07-11T19:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-splendor/118488/1 "2002-07-11T19:48:33Z")
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.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0305206) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-splendor/118488/2 "2002-07-11T20:23:13Z")
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?