{"id":4093,"date":"2010-07-13T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2010-07-13T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:33:26","slug":"pekars-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=4093","title":{"rendered":"Pekar&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4094\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pekar1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4094\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4094\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pekar1.jpg?resize=193%2C299\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of Pekar&#039;s best work can be found here.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to say about Harvey Pekar in a future post, but my immediate thoughts on his death can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/07\/13\/jeet-heer-the-legacy-of-the-every-mans-hero\/\">this National Post obituary<\/a>. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Harvey\u2019s early stories, especially the ones that Crumb drew, remain his best work. With an impressive fidelity to reality, they capture the daily texture of office life, the bickering common to marriages and transient moments of exultation and despair. Thus, a typical story describes the frustration of \u201cstanding behind old Jewish ladies in supermarket lines.\u201d This might almost be a stand-up comedian\u2019s routine, but goes deeper when Harvey\u2019s prejudice against \u201cold Jewish ladies\u201d is tested by an unexpected turn of events. Part of what makes these stories so great is Pekar\u2019s fine-tuned ear for all sorts of American dialects, ranging from the many gradations of immigrant accents to African-American slang. Few American writers in any medium have been so responsive to the richness of American speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have more to say about Harvey Pekar in a future post, but my immediate thoughts on his death can be found in this National Post obituary. An excerpt: Harvey\u2019s early stories, especially the ones that Crumb drew, remain his best work. With an impressive fidelity to reality, they capture the daily texture of office life, the bickering common to marriages and transient moments of exultation and despair. Thus, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[551],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-pekar"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}