"Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."

--The New York Times

"Pekar" has a vision that makes daily city life--a ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying bread--dramatic."

--Chicago Sun-Times

"Simply stated, American Splendor is the most superb literary endeavor to come off the streets of Cleveland in decades."

--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"Mr. Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand."

--The New York Times Book Review

Submitted By Publisher, August, 2004

American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them--he is himself.