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COMIC ARTIST

Harvey Pekar

1939 - 2010

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Harvey Lawrence Pekar (; October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a well-received film adaptation of the same name. Frequently described as the "poet laureate of Cleveland", Pekar "helped change the appreciation for, and perceptions of, the graphic novel, the drawn memoir, the autobiographical comic narrative." Pekar described his work as "autobiography written as it's happening. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harvey Pekar has received more than 1,188,003 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Harvey Pekar is the 149th most popular comic artist (down from 126th in 2019), the 9,516th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,703rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 25

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  • 1.80

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Harvey Pekar ranks 149 out of 174. Before him are Lynn Okamoto, Guy Delisle, Momoko Sakura, Kiyohiko Azuma, Les Clark, and Mike Mignola. After him are Norihiro Yagi, Neal Adams, John Byrne, Marv Wolfman, Kōsuke Fujishima, and Mark Millar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Harvey Pekar ranks 471. Before him are Wilhelm Bungert, Don Williams, Robert A. M. Stern, Josef Černý, Jose Maria Sison, and Mary Peters. After him are Sergio Bianchetto, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Gianfranco Leoncini, Józef Grudzień, Jet Harris, and Jan Szczepański. Among people deceased in 2010, Harvey Pekar ranks 352. Before him are Park Yong-ha, Patricia Wrightson, Sally Menke, Jerry Bock, Zbigniew Gut, and Bohumil Němeček. After him are Ted Stevens, Beryl Bainbridge, Charlie Hickcox, Joseph Kruskal, Audrey Williamson, and He Pingping.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harvey Pekar ranks 9,516 out of 18,182. Before him are Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896), Kevin Nealon (1953), Mike Mignola (1960), Bernard Edwards (1952), Edward C. Stone (1936), and Gregory Porter (1971). After him are Wilmer Valderrama (1980), Chris Klein (1979), Glenn Plummer (1961), George Deukmejian (1928), Dave Sheridan (1969), and Beth Fowler (1940).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Harvey Pekar ranks 35. Before him are John Buscema (1927), George Herriman (1880), Harvey Kurtzman (1924), Mort Walker (1923), Les Clark (1907), and Mike Mignola (1960). After him are Neal Adams (1941), Marv Wolfman (1946), Len Wein (1948), Bill Watterson (1958), Robert Kirkman (1978), and Scott McCloud (1960).

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