Harvey Pekar audio interview

Posted by David Pescovitz, December 1, 2008 8:58 AM | permalink

JBooks has an audio interview with pioneering underground comix writer Harvey Pekar, author of American Splendor. In discussion with Brown University cultural historian Paul Buhle, Pekar talks about being a secular Jew, speaking Yiddish, and Studs Terkel. Buhle is the editor of Jews And American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form, and is currently working on a biography of Pekar.
Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle in Conversation

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#1 posted by redjade , December 1, 2008 11:32 AM

His graphic novel Macedonia was worth it for me to buy - I feel I have a better understanding of that country and its issues now. I hope he picks a new country every year and gives it the same treatment.