***SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE***INTERVIEW WITH HARVEY PEKAR IN NEW YORK, TUES, FEBRUARY 17, 7:00 PM. NOW ONLY TEN BUCKS***

New York, February 13, 2009

From Danny Fingeroth:

***Admission AT THE DOOR ONLY for the HARVEY PEKAR interview at the YIVO Institute THIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, AT 7:00 PM has been reduced to $10.***

All you have to do is say the secret word: “HARVEY”

YIVO’s “Comics and the Jewish American Dream” interview series (moderated by DANNY FINGEROTH) continues TUES. FEB. 17 at 7:00 pm with:

HARVEY PEKAR: AMERICAN SPLENDOR
An evening with “America’s most heroic anti-hero.”

The man behind "American Splendor" will discuss his groundbreaking life’s work. With pop culture critic and historian Danny Fingeroth. Q&A to follow.

About HARVEY PEKAR:

HARVEY PEKAR was born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, which has been his home all his life. After completing high school, he went through a series of flunky jobs, tried the Navy and college, all to no avail. Finally, in 1965, he landed a job with the federal government, which he held until his retirement in 2001.
Pekar began his writing career as a critic for The Jazz Review in 1959. He began writing comic book stories in 1972, encouraged by his friend ROBERT CRUMB, who has illustrated a number of his pieces. The first collected edition of Pekar’s comic, AMERICAN SPLENDOR, won the American Book Award in 1987. A movie version of AMERICAN SPLENDOR was released in 2003 and garnered awards at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. In 2005, DC/Vertigo released Pekar's autobiographical full-length graphic novel, THE QUITTER, with artwork by Dean Haspiel. His book THE BEATS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY, with art by Ed Piskor and others, will be published by Hill and Wang in March.

About DANNY FINGEROTH:
Series curator and moderator DANNY FINGEROTH, a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics, has spoken about comics at the Smithsonian Institution and The Metropolitan Museum. He’s the author of DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT: JEWS COMICS, AND THE CREATION OF THE SUPERHERO (Continuum) and THE ROUGH GUIDE TO GRAPHIC NOVELS (Penguin). His book THE BEATS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY, with art by Ed Piskor and others, will be published by Hill and Wang in March.

Tuesday, February 17, 7:00 pm
The YIVO Institute For Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street / New York, NY 10011

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