Harvey Pekar is getting a statue.

[Mr 9.8]

http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-heights/index.ssf/2012/09/harvey_pekar_statue_to_be_dedi.html

 

Harvey Pekar statue to be dedicated at Cleveland Heights' Lee Road library next month

 

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS--The late Harvey Pekar will soon become a permanent fixture of one of his most beloved haunts; the Lee Road branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library.

A statue of Pekar at the library will be dedicated at a ceremony scheduled for Oct. 14. Entitled “Harvey Pekar: A Literacy, Library Life,” the event will include a presentation by JT Waldman, the illustrator who collaborated with Pekar on his posthumously publish graphic novel, “Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me.”

The famed author of the autobiographical comic book series “American Splendor” — which inspired a critically acclaimed 2003 movie of the same name — Pekar, 70, died in July 2010 at his East Overlook Road home in Cleveland Heights. A Coventry Road staple for decades, the Shaker Heights High School graduate was also an almost daily visitor, and longtime supporter, of the Lee Road library.

“That library was Harvey’s first love and second home,” said Pekar’s widow, Joyce Brabner.

[goldust40]

A fitting tribute.

[Comicopolis]

Absolutely.

[goldust40]

Indeed.