RIP: American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar (1939-2010)

When news broke on Monday that American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar was found dead in his Cleveland Heights, Ohio home, I wrote via Twitter: “I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting him in person, but [Pekar] is and will always be an inspiration to struggling creators.” Pekar is best-known for the pioneering comics series American […]

Posted on July 14, 2010 at 22:40 by Trisha Lynn · Permalink · Comments Closed
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8-Bit Theater ends its run with a bang

One of the first webcomics to use sprites from video games for character art, 8-Bit Theater creator Brian Clevinger gave his nine-year old series a great sendoff by teaming up with artist Matt Speroni and letterer Jeff Powell to create a hand-drawn epilogue to his story which ended officially on March 20. I have to […]

Posted on June 4, 2010 at 07:58 by Trisha Lynn · Permalink · Comments Closed
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