In 2009, I worked with Harvey Pekar to write a comic book memoir titled
“The Unrepentant Marxist”. I wrote the dialog based on his guidelines
(keep ‘em laughing) and Summer McClinton (one of his best artist
collaborators) did the drawings. He had a deal with Random House to have
it published but it got dropped after his death from lymphoma in 2010.
I’ve decided to begin serializing it this in seven installments this
week on my blog. Additionally, you can download it yourself
fromhttp://www.panix.com/~lnp3//UnrepMarx.pdf
<http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/UnrepMarx.pdf>. This was a draft copy that
Harvey’s editor never got a chance to work on, so you will notice typos
here and there.,
My old friend Paul Buhle hooked us up in 2009. Paul had worked with
Harvey on some great comic books based on the left, includingone about
SDS
<https://louisproyect.org/2007/12/22/harvey-pekar-paul-buhle-and-a-new-graphic-history-of-sds>,
but maybe did not consider the possibility that Harvey would propose
working on my memoir. It just turned out that we had a natural affinity
based on being the sons of Jewish shopkeepers, jazz fans, leftist
politics and an identification with the beat generation.
Paul volunteered to write a preface to the memoir that captures the two
of us quite well. Posted below, it will put the project into context.
Following it will be the chapter that covers my birth and growing up in
the Borscht Belt. Although I was no radical by any stretch of the
imagination, my village was filled with 1930s radicals that gave
Woodridge the nickname “Utopia in the Catskills
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/30/utopia-in-the-catskills/>” in a
1947 PM newspaper article. PM was a daily that reflected the POV of
Communists but was broad enough not to be mistaken for The Daily Worker.
https://louisproyect.org/2021/06/30/the-unrepentant-marxist-comic-book-chapter-one/
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