A review by scorpstar77
American Splendor: Another Day by Harvey Pekar

5.0

I love Harvey Pekar. I had, like many people, never heard of him until the American Splendor movie came out (that's a movie I could watch once a week for the rest of my life and never get bored with). After that, David started buying some of his stuff...The Quitter, some American Splendor books, now he gets the new issues as they come out. I read them all too. The stories are so everyday, so mundane - what happens when his cat runs out the front door one day, what happens when he goes to the grocery store, etc. - but the thought he puts into telling the stories and the honesty with which he shares his thoughts, reactions, foibles, it's just fascinating. The fact that he can make an interesting story about going to the HMO to get a prescription is amazing, but he does it every time. And he has excellent taste in art - the artists on his stories are always great. I feel like I'd like to have Harvey as a neighbor, someone to look out for you while you likewise look out for them, someone to casually discuss the world with on the sidewalk when you went to get the mail at the same time.