
2003
American Splendor
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Born
1952-03-01 · 72 yrs
Died
2024-08-01
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United States
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Writing
Brabner recalls "read[ing] comics when I was five or six years old – including Mad Magazine, her first exposure to political satire. Drifting away from comics as she grew older and discovered that "for the same amount of money I could get on the bus and go down to the library," she nevertheless remembered "a lot of what I'd read." Living "in Delaware working with people in prison, with kids in trouble," running a non-profit culture-based support program for inmates in the Delaware correctional system, Brabner was a founder and manager of "The Rondo Hatton Center for the Deforming Arts," a small theater space in Wilmington, Delaware.…