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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: ''Subterranean Pop'' #6 in 1982 described ''American Splendor'' as "bleak stories of boredom," and compared it to "Creator/AndyWarhol's early films."
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: One story, ''[=TransAtlantic=] Comics," begins with Harvey getting into a minor car accident. To take his mind off it, he reads a fan letter from an Englishman with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome who hopes to make his own comics about his experiences. After finishing the letter, Harvey is amazed… and the car accident plot starts again, with no mention of the letter again.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: One story, ''[=TransAtlantic=] "[=TransAtlantic=] Comics," begins with Harvey getting into a minor car accident. To take his mind off it, he reads a fan letter from an Englishman with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome who hopes to make his own comics about his experiences. After finishing the letter, Harvey is amazed… and the car accident plot starts again, with no mention of the letter again.
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* RandomEventsPlot: Sometimes a story will just be a random sequence of things that happened in a short period of time.
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* RandomEventsPlot: Sometimes a story will just be a random sequence of things that happened in a short period of time. The aforementioned story "[=TransAtlantic=] Comics" is an example of this, going from Harvey's minor car accident to Harvey reading a fan letter.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment[=/=]RandomEventsPlot: Sometimes a story will just be a sequence of things that happened in a short period of time. BigLippedAlligatorMoment: One story, ''[=TransAtlantic=] Comics," begins with Harvey getting into a minor car accident. To take his mind off it, he reads a fan letter from an Englishman with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome who hopes to make his own comics about his experiences. After finishing the letter, Harvey is amazed… and the car accident plot starts again, with no mention of the letter again.
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* ProductionPosse: Whenever Harvey worked with an artist whose style he liked, he'd have that artist back a bunch. Frequent collaborators included Creator/RobertCrumb, Greg Budgett, Gary Dumm, Gerry Shamray, Mark Zingarelli, Frank Stack, Sue Cavey, Spain Rodriguez, and Dean Haspiel.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To the works of Creator/JackKerouac. In fact, in the forward to the first ''American Splendor'' collection, Robert Crumb mentions that Harvey is the type of person who wouldn't be out of place in a Kerouac novel. Harvey would later write a graphic novel called ''The Beats'', about Kerouac and his contemporaries.
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** Harvey enjoyed jazz albums and was an avid collector (and in fact he wrote many jazz album reviews for several publications), so there are a LOT of references to jazz musicians and songs in the comic book.
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** Harvey enjoyed jazz albums and was an avid collector (and in fact he wrote many jazz album reviews for several publications), so there are a LOT of references to jazz musicians and songs in the comic book. Harvey was even tapped to do the liner notes -- in comic form, of course -- for the movie's jazz-filled soundtrack album.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: For his fourth appearance on ''Series/LateNight'', Harvey wants to talk about Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent company General Electric's shady business practices, since he feels like corporate conflicts of interest would stifle the network with censorship and lead to a disinformed public. When he speaks to Creator/DavidLetterman about it before the show, Letterman facepalms and tells him that it's ''Late Night'', not ''Series/MeetThePress''. Harvey doesn't take this well, but Letterman isn't wrong; ''Late Night'' is a talk show with an irreverent and comedic bent -- which is why Letterman could get away with some light BitingTheHandHumor against GE (which Harvey dismissively acknowledges) -- and not the serious forum Harvey wants it to be.[[note]]To his credit, after Harvey's passing, Letterman remarked, "[Pekar] was anti-establishment in a way that you don’t see guys like that anymore. And that used to really upset me, because I just thought 'Come on Harvey, don't do this to us, just play the game, blah blah blah blah.' Now, jeez, I wish I could have had Harvey on every night."[[/note]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: For his fourth appearance on ''Series/LateNight'', Harvey wants to talk about Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent company General Electric's shady business practices, since he feels like corporate conflicts of interest would stifle the network with censorship and lead to a disinformed public. When he speaks to Creator/DavidLetterman about it before the show, Letterman facepalms and tells him that it's ''Late Night'', not ''Series/MeetThePress''. Harvey doesn't take this well, but Letterman isn't wrong; ''Late Night'' is a talk show with an irreverent and comedic bent -- which is why Letterman could get away with some light BitingTheHandHumor against GE (which Harvey dismissively acknowledges) -- and not the serious forum Harvey wants it to be.[[note]]To his credit, after Harvey's passing, Letterman remarked, "[Pekar] was anti-establishment in a way that you don’t see guys like that anymore. And that used to really upset me, because I just thought 'Come on Harvey, don't do this to us, just play the game, blah blah blah blah.' Now, jeez, I wish I could have had Harvey on every night."[[/note]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: At the end of the story "Uncapped" (during the Vertigo run), Harvey says with a sly grin, "It's a wonder my carelessness hasn't killed me yet!" Harvey would later pass away after an accidental overdose of his antidepressant medicine.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment/ RandomEventsPlot: Sometimes a story will just be a sequence of things that happened in a short period of time. One story, ''[=TransAtlantic=] Comics," begins with Harvey getting into a minor car accident. To take his mind off it, he reads a fan letter from an Englishman with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome who hopes to make his own comics about his experiences. After finishing the letter, Harvey is amazed… and the car accident plot starts again, with no mention of the letter again.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment/ RandomEventsPlot: BigLippedAlligatorMoment[=/=]RandomEventsPlot: Sometimes a story will just be a sequence of things that happened in a short period of time. One story, ''[=TransAtlantic=] Comics," begins with Harvey getting into a minor car accident. To take his mind off it, he reads a fan letter from an Englishman with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome who hopes to make his own comics about his experiences. After finishing the letter, Harvey is amazed… and the car accident plot starts again, with no mention of the letter again.
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** Harvey enjoyed jazz albums and was an avid collector (and in fact he wrote many jazz album reviews for several publications), so there are a LOT of references to jazz musicians and songs in the comicbook.book.
** Harvey was also quite the voracious bookworm, and includes references to (and criticisms of) lesser-known authors and books he'd read.
* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Harvey's criticism of ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'' -- which he explains and expands upon during his [[https://www.tcj.com/blood-and-thunder-harvey-pekar-and-r-fiore/ acromonious back-and-forth]] with R. Fiore in ''The Comics Journal'' -- didn't win him any fans.
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** Harvey enjoyed jazz albums and was an avid collector (and in fact he wrote many jazz album reviews for several publications), so there are a LOT of references to jazz musicians and songs in the comic
** Harvey was also quite the voracious bookworm, and includes references to (and criticisms of) lesser-known authors and books he'd read.
* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Harvey's criticism of ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'' -- which he explains and expands upon during his [[https://www.tcj.com/blood-and-thunder-harvey-pekar-and-r-fiore/ acromonious back-and-forth]] with R. Fiore in ''The Comics Journal'' -- didn't win him any fans.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: For his fourth appearance on ''Series/LateNight'', Harvey wants to talk about Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent company General Electric's shady business practices, since he feels like corporate conflicts of interest would stifle the network with censorship. When he speaks to Creator/DavidLetterman about it before the show, Letterman facepalms and tells him that it's ''Late Night'', not ''Series/MeetThePress''. Harvey doesn't take this well, but Letterman isn't wrong; ''Late Night'' is a talk show with an irreverent and comedic bent, and not the serious forum Harvey wants it to be.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: For his fourth appearance on ''Series/LateNight'', Harvey wants to talk about Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent company General Electric's shady business practices, since he feels like corporate conflicts of interest would stifle the network with censorship.censorship and lead to a disinformed public. When he speaks to Creator/DavidLetterman about it before the show, Letterman facepalms and tells him that it's ''Late Night'', not ''Series/MeetThePress''. Harvey doesn't take this well, but Letterman isn't wrong; ''Late Night'' is a talk show with an irreverent and comedic bent, bent -- which is why Letterman could get away with some light BitingTheHandHumor against GE (which Harvey dismissively acknowledges) -- and not the serious forum Harvey wants it to be.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: For his fourth appearance on ''Series/LateNight'', Harvey wants to talk about Creator/{{NBC}}'s parent company General Electric's shady business practices, since he feels like corporate conflicts of interest would stifle the network with censorship. When he speaks to Creator/DavidLetterman about it before the show, Letterman facepalms and tells him that it's ''Late Night'', not ''Series/MeetThePress''. Harvey doesn't take this well, but Letterman isn't wrong; ''Late Night'' is a talk show with an irreverent and comedic bent, and not the serious forum Harvey wants it to be.
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* GeniusBonus: Harvey enjoyed jazz albums and was an avid collector (and in fact he wrote many jazz album reviews for several publications), so there are a LOT of references to jazz musicians and songs in the comic book.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arguably, depending on your opinion of NerdsAreSexy. Toby enjoyed ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' thinking of it as empowering. Harvey wasn't sold on it. He felt that the suburban middle class college kids in the film did not represent folks like Toby, an low income adult file clerk.
-->'''Harvey''': "They're gonna get their degrees, get good jobs, and stop being nerds.Look, Toby, the guys in that movie are not 28 year-old file clerks who live with their grandmother in an ethnic ghetto. They didn't get their computers the way you did by trading in a bunch of box tops and $49.50 at the supermarket.
-->'''Harvey''': "They're gonna get their degrees, get good jobs, and stop being nerds.Look, Toby, the guys in that movie are not 28 year-old file clerks who live with their grandmother in an ethnic ghetto. They didn't get their computers the way you did by trading in a bunch of box tops and $49.50 at the supermarket.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arguably, depending on your opinion of NerdsAreSexy. Toby enjoyed ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' thinking of it as empowering. Harvey wasn't sold on it. He felt that the suburban middle class college kids in the film did not represent folks like Toby, an low income adult file clerk.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arguably, depending on your opinion of NerdsAreSexy. Toby enjoyed ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' thinking of it as empowering. Harvey wasn't sold on it. He felt that the suburban middle class college kids in the film did not represent folks like Toby, an low income adult file clerk.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arguably, depending on your opinion of NerdsAreSexy. Toby enjoyed ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' thinking of it as empowering. Harvey wasn't sold on it. He felt that the suburban middle class college kids in the film did not represent folks like Toby, an low income adult file clerk.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arguably, depending on your opinion of NerdsAreSexy. Tody Toby enjoyed ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' thinking of it as empowering. Harvey wasn't sold on it. He felt that the suburban middle class college kids in the film did not represent Toby, an low income adult file clerk.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arguably, depending on your opinion of NerdsAreSexy. Tody enjoyed ''RevengeOfTheNerds'' thinking of it as empowering. Harvey wasn't sold on it. He felt that the suburban middle class college kids in the film did not represent Toby, an low income adult file clerk.
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-->'''Harvey''': "They're gonna get their degrees, get good jobs, and stop being nerds.Look, Toby, the guys in that movie are not 28 year-old file clerks who live with their grandmother in an ethnic ghetto. They didn't get their computers the way you did by trading in a bunch of box tops and $49.50 at the supermarket.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Judah Friedlander would later hit it big with his role in ''Series/ThirtyRock''.
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