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What I am reading
What I am reading rated it 7 years ago
The first 121 pages follow a clear concept, namely to explore the life of the Core-Beat poets Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs. Those stories are either pretty much focused on their homoerotic sexlife or on the very basics of them moving around a lot while switching from one odd job to the next or ru...
bobsburgers23
bobsburgers23 rated it 8 years ago
I thought the story was good, but I wasn't very impressed with the art. I can't tell if Harvey Pekar did the drawings or Ed Piskor did, but the characters were all pretty basic and similar. Heather's trip was great though. I really enjoyed how the dialogue between characters told what could have bee...
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 10 years ago
Some are just funny, some are political or social vehicles, and some are thought provoking or sad. But all are rather unique takes on characters, some of which are one page long, some a few pages longer. Some are word heavy while others use art more than the written word to convey their message....
oh, carrots.
oh, carrots. rated it 12 years ago
This isn't a story about triumph. The title should make that clear. So if you just can't stand the thought of repetitive failure, then leave it alone. Pekar's realism shines through here.
oh, carrots.
oh, carrots. rated it 13 years ago
How do you rate a book of interviews? There's some interesting stuff in here among lots of repetition (of course). I like the interviews with his wife's input the most. She pushes him, pushes his buttons. The answers are richer.Here's a bit of commentary from an interview in the mid-80s that struck ...
Rich's Gulag
Rich's Gulag rated it 13 years ago
This is an excellent retrospective on a pivotal decade in the development of comic books. Don't expect Superman and Spider-Man here, though ... this is devoted to what would have been called underground comix in earlier days, and alternative comics later on. Luckily, they're all just classified as c...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 14 years ago
My favorite pieces were about Kenneth Patchen & the Beat Chicks. Who knew Louise Fitzhugh illustrated a book about a little Beatnik girl(Suzuki Beane)before she wrote Harriet the Spy.
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 14 years ago
My favorite pieces were about Kenneth Patchen & the Beat Chicks. Who knew Louise Fitzhugh illustrated a book about a little Beatnik girl(Suzuki Beane)before she wrote Harriet the Spy.
grace
grace rated it 14 years ago
The Joyce Brabner story is by far the best; the Jeffrey Lewis one about Tuli Kupferberg is also quite well done. Everything else is so dry ("he spent two years in California but then he returned to New York in July 1958" etc., etc.) that you'd be better off reading the Wikipedia articles. Also, most...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 14 years ago
Comics, or graphic novels if you insist, have come a long way since Harvey Pekar came into the picture, but that doesn't mean anything has come close to what he does.R. Crumb is right on the money in his introduction: he says that Pekar's comics are, paraphrasing, so mundane they border on the fanta...
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