American Splendor: Portrait of the Author in His Declining Years

Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel offer a raw, unflinching coda to the American Splendor saga in this single-issue 2001 release from Dark Horse. As the title suggests, it finds the legendary curmudgeon confronting the indignities and hard-won wisdom of growing older, rendered in Haspiel’s expressive, gritty linework. A poignant and characteristically honest chapter, it stands as a key late-period document from one of comics’ most influential autobiographical voices.