Hardcover, 128 pages
Published Jan. 18, 2012 by Top Shelf Productions, Zip Comics.
"A lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) pioneered autobiographical comics, mining the mundane for magic since 1976 in his critically acclaimed series American Splendor.
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland is sadly one of his last, but happily one of his most definitive graphic novels. It presents key moments and characters from the city’s history, intertwined with Harvey’s own ups and downs, as relayed to us by Our Man and meticulously researched and rendered by artist Joseph Remnant. At once a history of Cleveland and a portrait of Harvey, it’s a tribute to the ordinary greatness of both." --Back cover.
An enjoyable history of Cleveland from Harvey Pekar. What I always like about Pekar's work is that it's told from a relentlessly working-class perspective. That's rare in all of American fiction, and doubly so in comics.
