Rowsdowr.com » books http://www.rowsdowr.com Searching for beer on the Sun Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:10:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 R.I.P. Harvey Pekar (1939 – 2010) http://www.rowsdowr.com/2010/07/12/r-i-p-harvey-pekar-1939-2010/ http://www.rowsdowr.com/2010/07/12/r-i-p-harvey-pekar-1939-2010/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:59:01 +0000 z http://www.rowsdowr.com/?p=877 Harvey Pekar

You will be missed.

From the A.V. Club

Underground comics icon and American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar was found dead early this morning, discovered by his wife Joyce in the Cleveland Heights home they shared. He was 70 years old. There’s no word yet on cause of death, although the police report notes that foul play and trauma did not play a part. Pekar, of course, documented his battle with lymphoma in 1994’s Our Cancer Year but has been disease-free since. Autopsy results are pending.

Clip from American Splendor

Some of my favorite quotes of his:

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”

“I`m a guy that likes to sit in one place.”

“It makes you feel good to know that there’s other people afflicted like you.”

“I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I’d feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something’s bound to turn up.”

Links:

Cult comic writer Pekar dead at 70 in Ohio (AP)

American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar [Paperback]

American Splendor (2003) [DVD]

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From Stephen King’s The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Engineer Bob sat in the cab, pulling the whistle-cord and looking as happy as a pig in shit. Jake supposed Engineer Bob’s smile was supposed to convey supreme happiness, but to him it looked like the grin of a lunatic. Charlie and Engineer Bob both looked like lunatics . . . and the more Jake looked at the kids, the more he thought that their expressions looked like grimaces of terror. Let us off this train, those faces seemed to say. Please, just let us off this train alive.

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