Harvey Pekar (1939-2010)
Harvey Pekar, the creator of alternative comic book American Splendor, died a couple of weeks ago. As he described it: I was sort of on a mission with American Splendor. I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my