A review by ohahconday
Best Of American Splendor by Harvey Pekar

4.0

I am glad to have read American Splendor this way taking in the best of Harvey Pekar. In this “Best Of” you get a great sense of who he Pekar is. In many ways, he is an exhausting man whose neuroticism exhausted me. Those comics where he is in his own head for 3+ pages frustrated me the most. However, the stories where he interacting with folks at work or on the bus were so delightful. Stories focused on Joyce (his wife) and Danielle (his foster daughter) were my favorite. Those comics gave me the best sense of who he is and trying to be. Because on first read Pekar is a depressed paranoid man, but as you get a fuller sense of who he is, he really is a man who is doing his best.

What’s not to love about that?