His death was later ruled to be the result of an accidental overdose of anti-depressants, which, frankly, I didn't know was possible.
-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Koval <[email protected]> >Sent: Dec 17, 2010 6:48 PM >To: World News Now Discussion List <[email protected]> >Subject: [Deadpool] Splendor no more > >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. > -- 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.
