内容説明
Experience the heartwarming all-American story of a crank and his comic book.
What’s a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? The story begins in 1976, when Harvey began publishing his autobiographical, slice-of-downtrodden-life comic book series American Splendor, illustrated by a who’s who of underground comic artists, including R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Greg Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray. After self-publishing American Splendor for nearly two decades under less than splendid conditions (and racking impressive accolades in the process), Harvey finally got a break when Dark Horse Comics took over the publication in the early 1990s. It was an opportunity for Harvey to reach a wider audience–which, as it turned out, included a few Hollywood types, too. (Who knew?) But that’s another story. . . .
Now we are happy to bring you the Best of American Splendor, a collection of some of Harvey’s greatest work. Harvey Pekar has been compared to Theodore Dreiser, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce, but this collection is a true American original. Just like Harvey.
引用 終わり
感想
stories by HARVEY PEKAR,
Art by Haspial,Josh Neufeld,Joe Sacco,Frank Stack,David Coller,Gerry Shamray,Sam Hurt,Joe Zabel,Gary Dumm,Colin Warneford,Paul Mavrides,Alex Wald,J.R.Stats,Jim Woodring,Caroles Sobocinski,Spain,Scott A.Gilbert
ハービー・パーカー氏の愚痴が、いろいろな漫画家氏達によって、描かれる話。
商業で、自分を主人公とし愚痴ばかり言っている漫画というのは、日本では珍しいと思った。
日本での柳沢きみお氏の漫画「大市民」のようなものと思った。
