Cleveland just can't catch a break: RIP Harvey Pekar

[Piotr Rasputin]

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/harvey-pekar-who-chronicled-ordinary-lives-in-american-splendor-comics-dies/?src=me

The teacher in History of Comic Book Art adored this dude. As did a lot of people.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Had never heard of him before the "American Splendor" movie, but he seemed like quite a character.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Sui generis. RIP.

 

[Bob Cook]

How is David Thomas feeling?

 

[Stitch]

I don't think Cleveland as an entity can catch or not catch a break in the first place.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

He had a bizarro moment on the old NBC Letterman show when he went on with a screed against GE, which owned the network.

That may have been his last appearance on the show.

 

[DanOregon]

"He quit on us" - Dan Gilbert.

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

He had a bizarro moment on the old NBC Letterman show when he went on with a screed against GE, which owned the network.

That may have been his last appearance on the show.

He made one appearance after that.

 

[FishHack76]

Apparently Peter Scolari was on the next night ...

 

[old_tony]

Hard to believe they ever had such a socially inept guy on in the first place. Maybe once, but after that ... fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Hard to believe they ever had such a socially inept guy on in the first place. Maybe once, but after that ... fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

That was the point. It was awkward and weird. When Letterman did the 12:30 show, they couldn't always get A-list guests, so they developed a list of oddballs -- Dr. Ruth, Brother Theodore, the woman from the nut museum, Harvey.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Coroner's ruling -- died of an accidental prescription drug overdose.