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The quitter movie
The quitter movie









But he also develops an aversion to any problem he cannot solve by beating it up, and with each increasingly savage victory he comes closer to a painful lesson about the consequences of his brutal behavior. When he discovers he has an aptitude for street fighting, Harvey takes sadistic delight in showing off his skills at the slightest provocation. Instead, the adolescent Harvey depicted in its pages is an aggressive, potentially explosive child, embarrassed by his Polish Jewish immigrant parents and their failure to integrate themselves fully into American life, and discouraged by his inability to make friends on Cleveland's ethnically mixed streets. In a tale that reaches all the way back to Pekar's post-World War II childhood, "The Quitter" largely abandons his cultivated image as a lovable neurotic who comes completely unraveled when he loses his voice or misplaces a favorite book. So it is that much more remarkable that "The Quitter," illustrated by Dean Haspiel, a frequent "American Splendor" contributor, should be Pekar's most poignant and satisfying effort to date. And at a time when a new generation of graphic novelists, including Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware, continues to find ever deeper levels of profundity in the conventional and the mundane, it's hard not to notice how conventional and mundane much of Pekar's work now seems in comparison.

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Surely, I thought, now that he is 66 and has turned his stories of quotidian existence in Cleveland, his conflicts with David Letterman and his battle with cancer into fodder for his comics, and has turned those comics into a movie (also called "American Splendor," in which Pekar was played by Paul Giamatti), and has turned the experience of making that movie into a comic, his tank of self-immolating anecdotes must be running dangerously close to empty. EVEN as a longtime fan of Harvey Pekar and his autobiographical comic book series, "American Splendor," I have to admit that I approached his latest effort in the same way Pekar approaches his own life: with a mixture of despair and resignation.









The quitter movie