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Jim Salicrup


Last Updated: 9/14/2009

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 

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...for only ten bucks!
Here are all the details, thanks to Danny Fingeroth!
***SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE***INTERVIEW WITH HARVEY PEKAR IN NEW YORK, TUES, FEBRUARY 17, 7:00 PM. NOW ONLY TEN BUCKS***

New York, February 13, 2009

From Danny Fingeroth:

***Admission AT THE DOOR ONLY for the HARVEY PEKAR interview at the YIVO Institute THIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, AT 7:00 PM has been reduced to $10.***

All you have to do is say the secret word: “HARVEY”

YIVO’s “Comics and the Jewish American Dream” interview series (moderated by DANNY FINGEROTH) concludes TUES. FEB. 17 at 7:00 pm with:

HARVEY PEKAR: AMERICAN SPLENDOR
An evening with “America’s most heroic anti-hero.”

The man behind "American Splendor" will discuss his groundbreaking life’s work. With pop culture critic and historian Danny Fingeroth. Q&A to follow.

About HARVEY PEKAR:

HARVEY PEKAR was born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, which has been his home all his life. After completing high school, he went through a series of flunky jobs, tried the Navy and college, all to no avail. Finally, in 1965, he landed a job with the federal government, which he held until his retirement in 2001.
     Pekar began his writing career as a critic for The Jazz Review in 1959. He began writing comic book stories in 1972, encouraged by his friend ROBERT CRUMB, who has illustrated a number of his pieces. The first collected edition of Pekar’s comic, AMERICAN SPLENDOR, won the American Book Award in 1987. A movie version of AMERICAN SPLENDOR was released in 2003 and garnered awards at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. In 2005, DC/Vertigo released Pekar's autobiographical full-length graphic novel, THE QUITTER, with artwork by Dean Haspiel. His book THE BEATS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY, with art by Ed Piskor and others, will be published by Hill and Wang in March.

About DANNY FINGEROTH:
     Series curator and moderator DANNY FINGEROTH, a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics, has spoken about comics at the Smithsonian Institution and The Metropolitan Museum. He’s the author of DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT: JEWS COMICS, AND THE CREATION OF THE SUPERHERO (Continuum) and THE ROUGH GUIDE TO GRAPHIC NOVELS (Penguin).

Tuesday, February 17, 7:00 pm
The YIVO Institute For Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street / New York, NY 10011

***THE REDUCED TICKET PRICE IS AVAILABLE ONLY AT THE DOOR. JUST SAY “HARVEY.”***

FOR ADVANCE TICKETS: Call 212-868-4444 or visit WWW.SMARTTIX.COM

FOR MORE INFO VISIT WWW.YIVO.ORG


                   
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Rick Parker

 
Harvey was very open and entertaining in his bemused sort of way. My favorite parts were when he gave out his home address to the entire audience and when, as he was being seated onstage, he cast a furtive glance over his left shoulder at the giant image of himself projected behind him as if to see if it was really him.

 
Posted by Rick Parker on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 12:58 PM
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