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

5.0

I love all of these stories, which are tiny, midwestern affirmations about the power of people to change and about what it looks like to care about people and a community. The Playboy story makes it seem like a lot of these were a response to the American Splendor caricature of Pekar as a crank, but I think if you see the movie, even (as opposed to reading his books themselves) the qualities that come across so strongly here come across there too: of a person who wants to do the right thing, and puts effort behind that desire.