Remembering Harvey Pekar

The famously eccentric comic book writer and graphic novelist, Harvey Pekar, died on July 12th. The best known of Pekar's autobiographical comic art series, American Splendor, was made into a 2003 film starring Paul Gimatti.  Beyond the Pale contributor Nan Rubin caught up with Pekar last year at a program at New York's Center for Jewish History.  We broadcast some of that exchange.

Pekar's collaboration with Paul Buhle, Yiddishland, will be published next spring by Abrams Comic Arts.