But thought leaders in the Northeast Ohio theater universe would beg to differ. As local playwright David Hansen says: "When people think of a writer with a 'Cleveland voice,' it should be more than just Harvey Pekar, great as he was. Playwrights in...

I know kind of what they went through because I was around to watch it. I don’t think they had that same community feeling that we had. Everybody piggybacks on somebody and we were piggybacking on Harvey Kurtzman (Mad magazine). But the later...

Moore was relaxed, erudite in the extreme and witty, while answering a wide range of questions on everything from the broad influence of Pekar’s work, to which of Moore’s own books he considers to be the best. A longtime friend of both Harvey Pekar and...

I was immensely impressed by that. For somebody to be talking about their home location in all of that detail. I love that stuff. And from back in the American Splendor days there's always one piece which i particular remember it's just Harvey on a hot...

Yesterday, Moore engaged in a two-and-a-half-hour webchat to raise funds for Cleveland's Harvey Pekar Library Statue, and as io9 reported, announced a new League project for this year: In the 48-page one-shot comic Nemo: Heart of Ice, which takes place...

And it was all done because of the Kickstarter campaign to get a statue built for late Cleveland comics writer Harvey Pekar. Moore proposed the online chat as a rare chance to ask him questions. Anyone who contributed $99 to the Pekar campaign got to...