Ediciones La Cupula Antologia American Splendor Vol 03 Book

Ediciones La Cupula Antologia American Splendor Vol 03 Book Clear . In the early 1960s, Harvey Pekar was a jazz critic and collector of old records to supplement his monthly income. He then met Robert Crumb and discovered American underground comics. Fascinated by the possibilities offered by the medium, a few years later he developed an autobiographical comic book project and, unable to draw it, convinced Crumb and two Cleveland artists, Gary Dumm and Greg Budgett, to illustrate the first stories. In 1976, he decided to self-publish his soon-to-be legendary series, American Splendor, which would feature some of the members of the American independent scene elite. The series received the prestigious American Book Award in 1987. American Splendor was adapted for the theater in 1985 and 1990 and finally brought to the cinema in 2003, receiving the Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In American Splendor, Harvey Pekar describes the daily life of the American middle class, through his own experience as an archivist in a public hospital in Cleveland and his turbulent romantic relationships, without hiding his choleric character and his manic-depressive episodes. He also paints a portrait of the characters he encounters, culminating in a fresco of Cleveland, an industrial city deeply affected by the crisis of the 1970s. By entering the scene, Harvey Pekar, anti-hero of a disenchanted America after the Vietnam shock, revolutionizes the medium and creates the first autobiographical comic book series that will have a great influence on later authors. This last volume of the anthology dedicated to Pekar´s series covers the years 1993 to 2004. Pekar describes here his fight against lymphatic cancer in the early 1990s, his conflicts with his last wife, Joyce Brabner, his retirement, but also his achievement of notoriety after the release of the film American Splendor, with his characteristic eloquence. The stories in this volume were written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a galaxy of authors such as Gary Dumm, Frank Stack, Joe Sacco, Jim Woodring, Robert Crumb, Ed Piskor and Gerry Shamray. tradeinn Techinn