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Seth Kushner on “Remembering Harvey Pekar”

Today marks the first anniversary of Harvey Pekar’s death. Very few people have had as great an influence on my life as Harvey. I was very fortunate to be able to collaborate with him and bring AMERICAN SPLENDOR to the screen.

I was thrilled to be approached by Seth Kushner about his current tribute to Harvey. I offer you a glimpse of it here.

CulturePOP Photocomix was born out of Seth Kushner’s desire to fuse his love of photojournalism, personality profile, and comix into a wholly unique form. Through this prism, Kushner has profiled such diverse personalities as toy designer Super Sucklord, author Douglas Rushkoff, comedian/musician Reggie Watts, artist Cynthia Von Buhler and auto-bio comix pioneer, American Splendor’s Harvey Pekar, on the one-year anniversary of his death.





Read the whole thing right here.
Seth Kushner — shoots portraits for such publications The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Businessweek, L’Uomo Vogue and others. Seth’s first book, The Brooklynites, was published by powerHouse Books in 2007. Currently, he’s working on his next book Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comic Books, coming March 2011. www.SethKushner.com

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I watched graphic artist & writer Dean Haspiel on the Artist To Artist series that BRIC has this morning.   In a lot of ways Dean is responsible for my making American Splendor.  Back before he was the recognized great artist he is today, he was our receptionist on The Ice Storm.  As we both shared a love for underground comics, it was only a matter of time that Harvey Pekar came up.  The years went by and Dean did some drawing for Harvey and told him and Joyce of my dream of making an American Splendor movie.  One night, late as it was, my phone rang.  Joyce was on the other end and my journey began.

Dean’s just done me another pleasure, by introducing me to the work of photographer Seth Kushner, the other artist on the Artist To Artist show, and the man behind this great portrait of Harvey, shot just last week.

Seth has done a lot of great portraits and whole bunch of the indie film scene.  You should check them all out but here’s a nice taste to get you started.

You check out Seth’s book The Brooklynites here.  He’s working now on a book of photos of NYC Graphic Novel scene, Graphic NYC (and hence his connection with Dean).