American Splendor: Unsung Hero

Harvey Pekar and David Collier collaborate on this three-issue Dark Horse series, which expands Pekar's autobiographical American Splendor approach to spotlight a lesser-known figure. Through Collier's detailed, observational art and Pekar's grounded storytelling, the comic profiles a working-class life with the same unvarnished honesty that defined the duo's work. It matters as a focused, human-scale entry in Pekar's celebrated canon of everyday American experience.