Harvey Pekar passed away this week. Not going to master-of-the-obviously add to all the sayings and anecdotes other than he was very influential — both to comics, and to me. There is also a story from Cleveland NPR here.
Here is an old PD article from when he was starting out, really great stuff. Click below to read the whole thing.
Click here for the whole article (it’s really classic Harvey).
see you all next week. God and Country.
Bradley Ricca, the creator of the Superman movie Last Son, took honors — the Silver Ace Award — recently at the Las Vegas Film Festival for his independent film about the creation of the superhero. No one is more surprised at the acceptance Last Son has received at film festivals across the country than its creator, a Case Western Reserve University lecturer in the Department of English and a fellow in the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) program. Academics primarily write, publish and report on papers, but Ricca has found this new venue to reach wider audiences about his Superman research. What he likes about the movie is the teaching moment that comes when the theater lights dim and the audience sits back totally focused on the big screen. Unlike reading a book, few interruptions can intrude on the delivery of the story. 
Much like Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster drew and pasted together a comic book at their homes in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, Ricca pieced together and edited the movie at his home computer without the high-tech equipment or funding of a major Hollywood studio. Friends supported his movie. What sets audiences abuzz with questions about Last Son is Ricca’s discovery that Siegel’s father died of a heart attack. This finding overturns popular culture theories about what motivates Superman’s a ctions. “Historians had said for years that Jerry’s father, who had run a clothing store on Central Avenue in Cleveland, was murdered by burglars,” Ricca said. Click here to read more.
