American Splendor #13

(1988)

Florida (Table of Contents: 1)

American Splendor / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Drew Friedman

Inks

Drew Friedman

Letters

Drew Friedman

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Louie

Synopsis

Louie loses the thread.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)

Keywords

autobiography

Sweet Like 'Oney (Table of Contents: 2)

American Splendor / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Frank Stack

Inks

Frank Stack

Letters

Frank Stack

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Frank

Synopsis

Frank and Harvey discuss Ollie North.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)

My Struggle With Corporate Corruption And Network Philistinism (Table of Contents: 3)

American Splendor / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Joe Zabel

Inks

Gary Dumm

Letters

Gary Dumm

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Joyce Brabner; Adeline; David Letterman

Synopsis

Harvey has been invited back on the David Letterman show and is determined to turn the discussion to political matters.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)

Keywords

autobiography

The Answering Machine (Table of Contents: 4)

American Splendor / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Gary Dumm

Inks

Gary Dumm

Letters

Gary Dumm

Synopsis

Assorted messages left on Harvey's answering machine.

Inky: The Not So Cool Cat (Table of Contents: 5)

American Splendor / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Paul Mavrides

Inks

Paul Mavrides

Letters

Paul Mavrides

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Inky; Joyce Brabner

Synopsis

Inky is a record critic.

Keywords

autobiography

Alterations (Table of Contents: 6)

American Splendor / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Val Mayerik

Inks

Val Mayerik

Letters

Val Mayerik

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Freddy (?); Cleaner receptionist; Suit salesman

Synopsis

The trials of clothes shopping.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)

Keywords

autobiography

In A Flush Of Excitement I Wrote This (Table of Contents: 7)

American Splendor / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Joe Zabel

Inks

Gary Dumm

Letters

Gary Dumm

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Gibby Wilkins

Synopsis

Harvey is visited by a fan who's hitching across the USA.

Keywords

autobiography

President's Day (Table of Contents: 8)

American Splendor / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Joe Zabel

Inks

Gary Dumm

Letters

Gary Dumm

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Joyce Brabner; Billy

Synopsis

Mentioning he has to work on President's Day leads Harvey into literary criticism. The day itself is extremely cold.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)
• in Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land (Harry N. Abrams, 2011 series) (2011)

Keywords

autobiography

A Man For The Job (Table of Contents: 9)

American Splendor / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Donald Simpson

Inks

Donald Simpson

Letters

Donald Simpson

Genre

drama

Characters

Elmo; Colleague

Synopsis

Elmo is fixing a socket.

I Don't Wanna Seem Judg-Mental, But... (Table of Contents: 10)

American Splendor / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Rebecca Huntington

Inks

Rebecca Huntington

Letters

Rebecca Huntington

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar

Synopsis

Harvey meets a musician friend.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)

Keywords

autobiography

Indexer Notes

The story is drawn in gray wash rather than traditional pencil and ink.

Public Benefactor (Table of Contents: 11)

American Splendor / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Ed Wesolowski

Inks

Ed Wesolowski

Letters

Ed Wesolowski

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar

Synopsis

Harvey retrieves a lump of rubber from the road.

Keywords

autobiography

Guilt! (Table of Contents: 12)

American Splendor / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Don Simpson

Inks

Don Simpson

Letters

Don Simpson

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar

Synopsis

Harvey has to be reminded that it's bad form to enter a corner shop with a supermarket bag.

Keywords

autobiography

Say No to Drugs (Table of Contents: 13)

American Splendor / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Ed Wesolowski

Inks

Ed Wesolowski

Letters

Ed Wesolowski

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar; Toby Radloff

Synopsis

Toby's White Castle preference.

Reprints

• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) (September 1991)

Keywords

autobiography

New York Street Crime (Table of Contents: 14)

American Splendor / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Val Mayerik

Inks

Val Mayerik

Letters

Val Mayerik

Genre

biography

Characters

Harvey Pekar

Synopsis

Harvey witnesses bystanders stopping a thief.

Keywords

autobiography

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

American Splendor / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Harvey Pekar

Pencils

Greg Budgett

Inks

Gary Dumm

Colors

Gary Dumm

Letters

Gary Dumm

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I saw that article on ya in the Plain Dealer, Toby.

Genre

drama; non-fiction

Characters

Toby Radloff; Nurse

Synopsis

Toby is congratulated by a nurse.