American Splendor: Our Movie Year #[nn]

Harvey Pekar brings his signature slice-of-life honesty to *American Splendor: Our Movie Year*, a 2004 Random House collection chronicling the experience of having his life translated to film. Mark Zingarelli's cover captures a group of people — badges around their necks — crowded around a monitor on what looks like a film set, with speech bubbles reading "Hey Harvey… the actors look better than we do!" and "Is that kinda like it was?", perfectly setting up the self-aware, wry tone Pekar is known for. With Josh Neufeld handling interior art, lettering, and inks, this is a genuinely compelling document of an everyday man navigating the very un-everyday world of moviemaking.