Harvey Pekar died on Monday at age 70, a real comic book hero.  Born in Cleveland, Pekar was the real deal, a true artist and as authentic as they come. In short, Pekar was our average day superhero.

Creating stories  from the depths of the ordinary grind,  Harvey Pekar is the writer who chronicled his mundane life experiences  in the comic book series American Splendor.   Robert Crumb told the Plain Dealer (1994) that Pekar’s work examined the minutiae of everyday life, material “so staggeringly mundane it verges on the exotic.”

Pekar himself summed it up as revealing “a series of day-after-day activities that have more influence on a person than any spectacular or traumatic events. It’s the 99 percent of life that nobody ever writes about.”

Rest in peace Harvey. Rest in peace.