American Splendor: On the Job

Harvey Pekar and artist Frank Stack take readers into the gritty, mundane reality of the workplace with this single-issue Dark Horse comic from 1997. Part of Pekar's long-running American Splendor series, it collects slice-of-life vignettes drawn from the writer's own job experiences and those of his collaborators. The issue distills Pekar's signature blend of wry observation and working-class authenticity into a compact, unglamorous portrait of labor and survival.