Pekar
I recently saw American Splendor, the Harvey Pekar story. It was really fascinating. I even browsed through one of his comic collections at my local bookstore. It seems to be a really early version of Seinfeld, which was a show about nothing. Although it’s a lot grittier and angrier than Seinfeld, it has the same basic premise. Some of it’s funny, some of it’s sad, some just plain wierd. That goes for both the movie and the comics.
The most interesting thing to me is why this fairly ordinary guy from Cleveland believes that people want to read comic about his life, which is mostly about nothing. How one motivates oneself, and the artists required for this effort must require a certain kind of ego that seems removed from the character in the movie and the comic books. I would like to understand his motivation better.
If you like subtle movies, you might like this one.
glory holes
on Aug 26th, 2004
@ 8:39 am:
Interesting blog, does this site get lots of activity or is it usually slow around here?
Most of the time spam is so blatent and obvious. Entries like the one above, is it spam or is it not. It’s hard for me to say as I don’t want to click on a web site names ‘glory holes’, but I think blogspot has reasonably high standards for what you can publish their. On the other hand comments like this for really old entries don’t add a lot of value. What to do, what to do?timbu
on Aug 26th, 2004
@ 9:55 am: