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Around the Tubes

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Brett

It’s been pretty quiet in the last 24 hours as far as news. There were a bunch of conventions this weekend so, I’m adding a generic convention section whenever there’s news. Here’s the news and reviews from the last 24 hours.

Around the Blogs:

Comic Book Resources – ZIP Comics and Top Shelf Productions Partner to Publish Harvey Pekar’s “Cleveland” – Having been born in Cleveland, you better believe this is on my read list.

Bleeding Cool – Nick Spencer And Emma Rios To Launch New Cloak And Dagger Series – It’ll be interesting to see where this series goes after their recent depictions. Nick Spencer is a solid writer, so here’s hoping.

ICv2 – ‘Social Network’ Actor is Ra’s Al Ghul – This is reportedly a flashback scene. It’ll be interesting to see how it fits into the main narrative.

Con Coverage:

Comics Girl – VA Comicon

Bleeding Cool – Kapow In Pictures – Cool As A Cucumber

Bleeding Cool – Kapow – The Marvel Panel

Bleeding Cool – A Look At Kapow Day One, From My Vantage Point

Bleeding Cool – Kerpow – The CLiNT Panel

Bleeding Cool – Rob Granito Makes It To Kapow

Comic Book Resources – WC11: Archaia Comics Presents 2011 and Beyond

Comic Book Resources: Spinoff Online – WC11: Star Saoirse Ronan On Hanna’s Grim Grimm’s Fairy Tale

Comic Book Resources – WC11: DC Icons

Comic Book Resources – Vado Recounts 25 Years of SLG

Around the Tubes Reviews:

With Great Power – Sabretooth: Back to Nature

Comics Alliance – April 8: ‘Fresh Ink! Online’ Pick of the Week [Video]

Harvey Pekar Wants You

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Brett

Over at Scholars and Rogues they’ve been running tributes to Harvey Pekar who passed away last year. While they’ve been great, the final one by by artist and illustrator Bill Alger caught my eye as it depicts Pekar as Uncle Sam.

You can find more of Alger’s work here Official Site – Facebook – deviantART.

You can see the entire tribute at Scholars and Rogues here.

Harvey Pekar Has Passed Away

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Brett

Harvey Pekar opened his life to all of us through comic books. He was one of two comic book legends to come from the “mistake by the lake,” the other being Superman. His autobiographical comic book series American Splendor chronicled his life, warts and all. Pekar passed away earlier this morning.

Pekar, 70, was found dead shortly before 1 a.m. today by his wife, Joyce Brabner, in their Cleveland Heights home, said Powell Caesar, spokesman for Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.

A Cleveland institution, Pekar began his comics career after being inspired by R. Crumb in 1972 and began to publish annually in 1976. Crumb described Pekar as “the soul of Cleveland.”

He won the American Book Award in 1987 for American Splendor and was a regular guest on the David Letterman show. Pekar also won a Peabody Award and saw his life on the big screen in a film adaptation of American Splendor which won the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic films at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

Cleveland.com has further coverage of the life and times of Harvey Pekar, a true original.

Pekar in a Letterman appearance from July 31, 1987.

How I Lost Faith In Israel

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Brett

Harvey Pekar is an outspoken man who gained fame for his autobiographical comic book series American Splendor. The fellow Clevelander was discovered by R. Crumb and hit main stream when Paul Giamatti played him in the American Splendor film adaptation.

Pekar will be attending the Toronto Jewish Film Festival this weekend not due to his Jewish roots but because he “can use the money.”

The National Post has an interesting interview where Pekar touches on his Jewish roots and raised our eyebrows with his next project which I’m sure will raise some controversy.

The artist shows no signs of mellowing at 70: He’s at work on a graphic novel called The Pekar Project for Smith magazine as well as his controversial book about Israel.

How I Lost Faith in Israel is the title of that “controversial” comic book and we’re sure due to Pekar’s brutal honesty it’ll ruffle some feathers. We’ll keep you updated when more news comes out.