It's been a while, but still list worthy, since I don't think it's been posted. I found out from Time magazine fer crisssakes!
-------- 13 Jul 2010 Harvey Pekar, who died on Monday aged 70, was an eloquent American chronicler of the mundane and often dispiriting events that inevitably mark most lives; his tales of Everyman were all the more affecting for being rendered not in heartfelt novels, but in the comic book form usually reserved for the exploits of superheroes. Though compared to Chekhov and Dostoevsky, Pekar himself was anything but a superhero. Even after his autobiographical stories were transferred to the big screen in the film American Splendor (2003) he was unable to revel in triumph: "I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that," his character said in a cartoon. His themes were anxiety, existential insecurity, and a niggling certainty that life was out to get him. "If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it," he once said in an interview. "That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball but if you worry about every little thing it's not a good use of time and energy." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7888494/Harvey-Pekar.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
