Comments on: Harvey Pekar at ALOUD Tonight http://blog.artandstory.com/2006/06/08/harvey-pekar-at-aloud-tonight/ Sun, 20 May 2012 19:38:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Lee-Roy http://blog.artandstory.com/2006/06/08/harvey-pekar-at-aloud-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Lee-Roy Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:09:24 +0000 http://blog.artandstory.com/2006/06/08/harvey-pekar-at-aloud-tonight/#comment-149 Why, thank you James. I looked for an alternative real word, but none of them seemed to do the trick, thus, "idolation." I think it works. I want to add, that prior to Crumb and Pekar, I had also read a fair amount of cartoony non-superhero comix, but primarily in strip form, not narrative books. And all of them still within the very mainstream confines of the medium. Nothing genre-busting, so to speak. ...Except for the very awesome and definitely genre-busting Batman comic my brother drew and sent to me once when I was at camp. There, I think those are all the exceptions. Why, thank you James. I looked for an alternative real word, but none of them seemed to do the trick, thus, “idolation.” I think it works.

I want to add, that prior to Crumb and Pekar, I had also read a fair amount of cartoony non-superhero comix, but primarily in strip form, not narrative books. And all of them still within the very mainstream confines of the medium. Nothing genre-busting, so to speak.

…Except for the very awesome and definitely genre-busting Batman comic my brother drew and sent to me once when I was at camp.

There, I think those are all the exceptions.

]]> By: Jamie http://blog.artandstory.com/2006/06/08/harvey-pekar-at-aloud-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Jamie Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:28:05 +0000 http://blog.artandstory.com/2006/06/08/harvey-pekar-at-aloud-tonight/#comment-148 Nice fragment and word invention: "Stripped from my naive idolation (yes, I invented a new word) of spandex-clad he-men and thrust into the dark, perverse, underworld of the self-loathing antihero. Nice fragment and word invention: “Stripped from my naive idolation (yes, I invented a new word) of spandex-clad he-men and thrust into the dark, perverse, underworld of the self-loathing antihero.

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