>be a jewish loser in a dead-end job>interested in comics but can't draw for shit>start making crude stick figure comics depicting his shitty life exactly as it happens>other artists like Robert Crumb actually draw the illustrations>comic book series is critically acclaimed>a nerdy cutie who's a fan of his work gets in touch with him, moves to Cleveland to live with him without even knowing what he looks like IRL and marries him a few days later>get invited to the David Letterman's late night show where he becomes a lolcow>get cancer but he recovers, make another critically acclaimed graphic novel where he just shows what it's like to have cancer>years later they make a movie about himwhat can we learn from this?
Jews control the media. But you already knew that, right?
>>220930653Neither the movie nor the 40 years of comics made him much money. He lived in the same shitty house in Cleveland Heights his whole life and spent any extra money he had on jazz records. He wasn't really a practicing Jew, so his life and work are really more an exploration of living with autism. I think the movie even alludes to how him and Toby both clearly had high functioning autism
>>220931166Checked. Use to work in the Heights. See him on Coventry all the time. Looked like a bum.
>>220930442It was a good movie.
>>220930442>>a nerdy cutie who's a fan of his work gets in touch with him, moves to Cleveland to live with him without even knowing what he looks like IRL and marries him a few days laterThis happened irl on the /co webcomics thread for artist-writer SmackyJackson, creator of Tad Danger. A girl moved from Hawaii to Missouri for him because she thought his webcomics were funny. Now they're currently happily married and have a kid.
>>220930653Kill yourself, retard.
>>220931166How was Crumb able to get rich but this guy couldn't?
>>220930442He was a curmudgeon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcw04jWgiY>>220930653He was never rich or connected, and hated the very idea of it. He was always "anti". He was tasked with promoting his work on tv shows but then hated the very diea of it. He had something fucked up in his head where he was always antagonistic.
>>220931293I had a friend who cashed him out at The Exchange for years and had no idea it was him because he looked just like any of the thousands of other old ethnic guys shuffling around the east side
>>220931369Crumb is spiritually jewish.
>>220931369Crumb's work had much wider appeal than Pekar's. Pekar's work was "critically acclaimed," but that never translated to sales. He had devoted fans, but a comic full of wild drawings of stoner cats and guys fucking a headless woman is an easier sell than one that's 30 pages of a bald guy walking around in the park thinking about life and reaching no interesting conclusion of any kind. Crumb was a huge counter cultural figure, whereas Pekar always had extremely niche appeal. If you've never read American Splendor or any of Pekar's other work, a lot of it truly is extremely boring
He's fucking insane.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IETY0NdSXYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcw04jWgiYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IETY0NdSXY
>>220931528I almost get the sense that Pekar in another life would be some kind of revolutionary weirdo, or a work place shooter.
>>220931430This is actually how a lot of people act online today, only those people have the safety of internet anonymity, and Harvey had the balls to say it in public. You gotta give him that.
>>220931582He really was just a crank, he struggled to relate to other people and reading between the lines of his stories, the only people who could stand him were other sub-normal weirdos. There's a story about him going to Euclid Beach Park with other boys and they almost ditch him because they think some girls might go home with them and there wouldn't be room for Harvey in the car. They don't bother apologizing to him until it becomes clear the girls won't be coming with them
>>220930442The guy showed the world that comics can be about other things besides superheroes and childrens stories. He wasnt the first to do this, but he did it in a time when comics were thought of as a very narrow, looked down upon form of entertainment. You can use it to tell stories about life that adults can relate to. He broke the rules that society had set on comics. Harvey should be admired for that.
>>220931440I miss that store. I'm back on the westside now. Have one here, but that one was cool.
>>220930442That people were so desperate for counter-culture that literally anything would take off
>>220931888Nice trips, and yeah, the original store is still nice, sucks that all the franchise locations are hit and miss
>>220932062
Didn't his autistic co-worker get famous too?
>>220932557Yes, but famous in the same way Harvey is famous, famous in a way that doesn't matter, and still more famous than he deserves. He was in a couple low budget horror-comedy movies and I think might've made a guest appearance on some VH1 panel show or some shit. Like pull 100 people off the street, maybe 1 or 2 of them know who Harvey Pekar was, and no one would know who Toby Radloff is
>>220932557yeah, the guy who was a self-professed nerd and loved Revenge of the Nerds.He appeared in a few MTV's sketches back in the day (you can see them in the film) and later starred in two low budget comedy horror movies.
https://youtu.be/qXDeAcyt8Ng
>>220931430>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvcw04jWgiYholy based
>>220933574Letterman didn't adhere to the writer's strike and did some writing for Disney. >sneaker's and a suit? That's weird man.That's right.
>>220933574huh.
>>220933574Letterman was a jackass here and knew he lost
>>220933574Who's G?
>>220933724Harvye was trying to get under his skin and he reacted.
>>220931537How many times was he on Letterman?
Comics does seem the 2nd most affordable medium to enter aside from writing.
>>220933795Three times, I think.
>>220933795They should have had him on once a month to just shoot the shit about politics and society.
>>220934028Was he more entertaining in his own right rather than having anything in particular to talk about?
>>220933743The guy who suffers?
>>220934104https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biOodnioY8cHe was insane. They should have just dropped the premise of him trying to promote his book because his publisher set up the interview, and just dive into Harvey himself. He was a wild card, and I'm sure Dave could have paid him more than what he was making as an office clerk.
>>220930442One of the most revolting movies I have ever seen.
>>220934183>paid him more than an office clerk Pekar didn't want to be anything other than a file clerk. He held that job and refused any promotion until he reached retirement age. Any work he did, the comics, the essays, flying to New York to do Letterman, he was still working full time for the VA. Our man had intense autism and loved his routines
>>220934466There's no way you could do that in today's world. Be an office worker and go on whatever the equivalent of Letterman is today and be a spaz. Canceled in a minute.
>>220933574Why was he so mad?
>>220931166Was he circumcised?
>>220931430Guys like that die and the everyone finds out they had $10,000,000 in a bank account just sitting there accruing .03%
>>220931804If anything he ruined the medium.
>>220934588How? By making "comics" serious instead of about heros and Casper?
>>220934466what a weirdo.
>>220933795from the Wikipedia page of the movie:>David Letterman refused to appear in the film, and his old network of NBC did not allow the filmmakers to use footage of Pekar's disastrous fourth and sixth appearances on Late Night (aired July 31, 1987 and August 31, 1988, respectively), though they had no problems with the other Pekar appearances that are shown in the film.[11] The supposed "final appearance" was done using oblique camera angles and a voiced-over audio of the incident.[12] (In actuality, Pekar returned for two more appearances on the Letterman show in 1993 & 1994.)So, eight times in total, apparently.
>>220930442https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTql9VUdVYYwhole film is on youtube lol
>>220930442What did they mean by this?
>>220931369Crumb can actually draw and he's one of those artists that creates a mountain of material seemingly effortlessly.His stuff is also easily adapted into merchandise and branding material so it gets signal boosted.
>>220936454>240pthat's why HBO didn't even bother pulling it down
>>220933743he was talking about the company GE. Harvey Pekar started talking about the president of GE, Letterman shut it down because they owned NBC at the time
>>220934235damn you got shit taste, sucks to be you
>>220937096stfu manchild incel
>>220937152Careful he’s a hero
