Harvey Pekar,
Master Of The Drawn Memoir.
Harvey Pekar was an ordinary guy who decided to put some of the more interesting aspects of his life into a memoir. Being a long-time comic book fan, instead of writing his life story he decided to produce it as a comic or graphic novel and so he produced a series of crudely drawn strips illustrating his stories. These he passed onto comic book artists, including Robert Crumb, who produced professional drawings for him.
His stories were drawn by a great variety of artists including his third wife Joyce Brabner, Drew Friedman and Alan Moore. Each artist created their own version of the look Pekar's world that ranged from the cartoonish to almost photo realistic.
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