The late 70’s are a great period in filmmaking. The artists in charge of defining the decade changed the game, giving us Taxi Drivers and Godfathers and Mean Streets to grow up on. They pulled the ...

Standing out among specialty releases this year was Fine Line’s groundbreaking adaptation “American Splendor,” which fused fictional filmmaking, documentary and even comic strip inserts to paint a ...

“American Splendor” was named top movie of the year by the National Society of Film Critics, topping “Mystic River” and “Lost in Translation” in Saturday’s balloting. The 55 critics also awarded ...

“American Splendor,” Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s quirky look at the life and times of Cleveland underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, was voted best picture of 2003 by the Los ...

Acclaimed cartoonists Josh Neufeld and Dean Haspiel have teamed up to launch Scene by Scene, a podcast devoted to the film American Splendor, the award-winning 2003 movie based on the life and work of ...

I'm proud to announce that fellow cartoonist Dean Haspiel and myself have launched a new weekly podcast: Scene by Scene with Josh and Dean. Debuting today, Scene by Scene focuses on the award-winning ...

"American Splendor," the story of morose underground comic legend Harvey Pekar and his autobiographical comic book series, won the best picture award in the second annual Seattle Film Critics Awards.

“American Splendor” begins in 1950 but freely jumps back and forth in time, allowing particular events to trigger memories — the way Pekar himself might tell us his story over a burger at some ...

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.