Read up on the latest American Splendor film News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

The movie American Splendor (2003) adapts Pekar’s comics of the same (which were released between 1976 and 2008), as well as the graphic novel Our Cancer Year, which he co-wrote with his wife, Joyce ...

“American Splendor” represents a bold deconstruction of the fatigued biopic form. Not content to present the Cleveland-based Pekar’s life as anything resembling a straightforward narrative, Berman and ...