Harvey Pekar R.I.P. by Penguin_guy | Famous People Cartoon

Harvey Pekar R.I.P.

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Member		yes, R.I.P. Harvey! Legends never die! Ricco-5th horseman, on July 14, 2010 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		Great tribute! Great work! R.I.P ,Harvey Pekar! ***** Kidor, on July 12, 2010 [report post] [quote] [reply]

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by Penguin_guy
uploaded on July 12, 2010
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Harvey died today.

He was a kind of everyman and everymans hero. At least in the community of all the cartoonists here in the US.

He left a huge amount of awesome work. He was portraited in the great movie American Splendor with Paul Giamatti as Harvey and Hope Davis as his wife Joyce. He was just Harvey Pekar.

I was asked to participate in a project for his 70th birthday last year. The idea was to get 70 artists to draw their version of Harvey as a surprise present. I did this portrait, which he later signed for me. Anyway, at the end they got far more than 70 Harvey-heads for him. You can see them all at http://www.smithmag.net/pekarproject/harveyheads/

tags harvey pekar portrait american splendor thomas baehr cleveland comics robert crumb

technique drawing b/w
category Famous People

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