American Splendor and More American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
From the book description:
"American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them—he is himself."
Why this is progressive/liberal: Harvey Pekar's appearances on David Letterman, where he openly criticized the network, demonstrate his progressive sensibilities. While an iconoclastic and independent thinker, Pekar's willingness to place art before wealth places him squarely in the progressive camp.
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