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Not really much of a Harvey Pekar fan, but I always appreciated that he was very willing to tell other people's story.
I never found his own stories compelling (partially because I find him pretentious and condescending), but he was very good at telling other people's stories in entertaining ways.
Like, I really don't see the appeal of him just wandering around lecturing people or putting down people for not finding his dull stories compelling.
Pekar strikes me as a guy I wouldn't get along with in real life, and that turns me off a lot of his most famous work.
Pekar strikes me as a guy I wouldn't get along with in real life, and that turns me off a lot of his most famous work.
If nothing else, I apparently can write a whole comic series where I just do my normal bullshit and rant about completely irrelevant things, and I will be regarded as a genius.
At least by R. Crumb.
At least by R. Crumb.
Granted, my negative appraisal of Pekar could be because of his incredibly condescending, snobby, and just mean letters he gave to the Comics Journal, where he dismisses genre fiction and just states the superiority of his version of "realism." Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Also, Gish Gallopped the whole thing, so that each of his inane, strawman points couldn't be properly deconstructed.
Again, I probably wouldn't have gotten along with him in real life, so getting invested in his stories is hard.
Again, I probably wouldn't have gotten along with him in real life, so getting invested in his stories is hard.
Another probable thing is that he convinced a lot of mediocre white men that their lives were very interesting and worthy of discussion.
Apologies for the long-winded rant. Happens with anxiety. Someday, someone is going to find this thread, and a lot of people will be very mad.
Apologies for the long-winded rant. Happens with anxiety. Someday, someone is going to find this thread, and a lot of people will be very mad.
