Harvey Pekar, creator of "American Splendor"

Mon, Apr 17
8 pm
$18.50

Harvey Pekar
In conversation with Josh Kornbluth

The graphic novels of Harvey Pekar relay the drama of daily life,
from the humdrum to the heroic, the grim to the grand. Pekar is best
known for his autobiographical slice-of-life comic book series
"American Splendor," which has been published on an annual basis
since 1976. He adapted the series into a film of the same name
starring Paul Giamatti as Pekar, which received the Sundance
International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, the FIPRESCI Award at
Cannes, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Cleveland, Ohio native is also a prolific music and book critic
and he worked as a full-time hospital file clerk from 1966 until
2001. In "Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story," Pekar captures
the exuberant, ironic, sometimes sad, and often funny life of a man
named Michael Malice, a Ukranian-born serial temp worker with an I.Q.
of 160. Told through Pekar's entertaining and thoughtful
perspective, this true story follows Malice as he wrestles with his
exceptional gifts in the confines of ordinary life.

Harvey Pekar will visit the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco to be
interviewed onstage by monologist Josh Kornbluth, host of KQED-TV's
"The Josh Kornbluth Show."

Venue:

Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco

Additional Info:

(415) 392-4400
www.cityarts.net