Book description
Meet Harvey Pekar, a true American original. For over 25 years he's been writing comic books about his life, chronicling the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. Working as a hospital file clerk in Cleveland, his dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday worldā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked American Splendor as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am not recommending a particular volume or compilation. In general I love the work of Harvey Pekar.Ā He has brought me closer to Documentary Comics than any other author. He worked with reflections and anecdotes and was one of those authors that from the writing was able to defy the common places in comics making. Yes, he was a scriptwriter, but he pulled out so many amazing comics from the graphic formula and made them work. I remember seeing gigantic balloons with blocks of text. Pages and pages of close-ups, and they werenāt boring.Ā A comic about him reflectingā¦
From Camilo's list on international documentary comics about the world.
If you love American Splendor...
These Blue Mountains
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancĆ©, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Heddaā¦
Want books like American Splendor?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like American Splendor.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,340
readers submitted
so far, will you?
š If you like American Splendor, you might also like...
Foxfire in the Snow
It's a time of change, between magic and alchemy.
Born the heir of a master woodcutter in a queendom defined by guilds and matrilineal inheritance, nonbinary Sorin canāt quite seem to find their place. At seventeen, an opportunity to attend an alchemical guild fair and secure an apprenticeship with theā¦
The Main Gate
Dr. Elise Marquette has spent years burying the pastāuntil the past refuses to stay buried.
Hired to join Earthās first interstellar contact team, she hopes the vastness of space will finally offer distance from the ghosts of war and the wounds left by a mother who never let her beā¦
