American Splendor
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
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A playful, formally inventive biography that blends comic panels, live-action, and animation to celebrate the quiet dignity and neurotic complexity of an ordinary life.
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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