Harvey Pekar is still plugging away on his American Splendor series, with an all-new DC Vertigo graphic novel hitting shelves tomorrow.
“Another Day” is the collected four-issue miniseries Vertigo released last fall to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a series that hilariously glorifies the mundane life of everyday oddballs in Cleveland. After a 30-year run that started with Pekar’s collaboration with Robert Crumb, Splendor in fact has more fans than ever after the 2003 smash film adaptation starring Paul Giamatti, which "narrowly" lost out on a best adapted screenplay Oscar to Lord of the Rings.
The 25 or so stories are illustrated by Pekar’s usual cast of some the best comics’ artists around, led by the always-great Dean Haspiel, who did his last graphic novel, “The Quitter,” a prequel of sorts to the movie. Other artists include Ty Templeton, Greg Budgett and Gary Dumm, as well as 15 or so others.
Pekar here is at his curmudgeonly best, taking us through the typically odd and hilarious vagaries of his life like cleaning his toilet, topping off an early morning asthma attack with Prozac, blood pressure pills and amphetamines (don’t do that at home, kids!), and undergoing the torture of trying to complete an assignment for Playboy magazine.
