Harvey Pekar dead at 70

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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/13/local/la-me-harvey-pekar-20100713

Harvey Pekar, the Cleveland comic book author who made prickly honesty about everyday life into an artistic credo and whose outward aspect of dour dishevelment masked a passionate, elegant intellect, has died. He was 70.

Pekar was found dead early Monday by his wife, writer Joyce Brabner, at home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio,

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Is that tomorrow, Monday, or last week, Monday. n/t

[virgogal]

2. Huh ?

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Either it hasn't happened yet....

...or it's a week old. If it was a week old, and not covered, that would be different.

There is search function.

The main page fills up every 90 minutes to three hours as it is.

[Warpy]

4. Has to be last week

He was enough of a cult character that his death would have been ignored by all the press under 40 who had no idea who he was. It had to take a fan reading a short death notice and screaming "Do you know who this guy is?" to get it reported this widely. That's what likely took a week.

I have to admit that I was never into "graphic novels" or the fan cult behind them. I had read a couple of his works and Crumb's works in periods of utter boredom at some freak's house, but that was it. It was not anything I sought out. That's just me, though, he was widely popular with everyone I knew.

RIP, Harvey Pekar. You made your mark on a generation and have earned your rest.

(BTW, I loved one obit's image of him running around at a comic book convention complaining loudly about having no donuts. It was completely in character with what little I know of his work)

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5. This is the FOX method

I report. You decide if it actually happened. I'm pretty sure Mr. Pekar is dead, having read it in a couple of places now. The LA Times seemed the most credible source.