A Tribute To Harvey Pekar, With A Little Help From Alan Moore

[Rich Johnston]

This weekend, Alan Moore engaged in his first mass webchat, to help promote the Kickstarter appeal to raise money for a tribute statue to the late Harvey Pekar.

The two-and-a-half hour video has been made available on Vimeo, and those who enjoy it are asked to consider making a Paypal donation towards the fundraising effort (below, to hpekar@aol.com) to help cover the cost of taxes and other fees from the original fundraising drive.

In addition, Alan told Harvey's wife Joyce Brabner that he so enjoyed the experience, he might be up for doing something else of a similar nature in the future.

Joyce tells me that she welcomes suggestions and ideas as to what this could entail and how it could be managed...

[Wilson Masters]

Isn't Harvey Pekar's entire body of work a tribute to Harvey Pekar? I'm sorry if that sounds crass, but honestly.

[cerebus2004]

Isn't Harvey Pekar's entire body of work a tribute to Harvey Pekar? I'm sorry if that sounds crass, but honestly.

many works of fiction are autobiographical in nature. sorry he didnt write spider-man or x-men. what he wrote was much better.

$5 sent. and it was so easy! cool...................

[not him - HIM]

sorry he didnt write spider-man or x-men.

So you should be. Remember: guys who never wrote or drew for franchises don't count!

[scratchie]

Would it be ungracious of me to point out that this statue looks (IMO) nothing at all like Pekar?

[not him - HIM]

Would it be ungracious of me to point out that this statue looks (IMO) nothing at all like Pekar?

It looks like him as much as Robert Crumb's version of him looks like him. That's good enough for me.

[GreyMouser]

i was lucky to meet Mr. Pekar and have him sign the Beats, he was a nice and genuine guy. IMO mainstream supe comics would have been a waste of his time.