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Friends of Joyce Brabner have reached out, asking me to share the sad news that she died yesterday, at the age of 72. Joyce Brabner owned a comic book store as well as a costume store in the early eighties when she began to correspond with comic book writer and publisher Harvey Pekar over his small press, a[...]

Photo by Daniel Anthony Nolan, with Joyce Brabner and Steve Presser. Yesterday, Cleveland Heights celebrated the life of comic book writer Harvey Pekar by dedicating part of Coventry Road and Euclid Heights Boulevard to his memory and legacy, naming it Pekar Park. It included a Harvey Pekar Comic Fest, a Pekar Park dedication, jazz performance, a storytelling session and a screening of[...]

This weekend, Alan Moore engaged in his first mass webchat, to help promote the Kickstarter appeal to raise money for a tribute statue to the late Harvey Pekar. The two-and-a-half hour video has been made available on Vimeo, and those who enjoy it are asked to consider making a Paypal donation towards the fundraising effort (below,[...]

Alan Moore is engaging in a videochat with 58 people who paid $99 as part of a Kickstarter effort to raise money for a Harvey Pekar tribute statue. He