The New American Splendor Anthology

Harvey Pekar’s scrappy, true-to-life comic series American Splendor got a fresh chapter with this 1991 anthology from Four Walls Eight Windows. Featuring frequent collaborator Joe Zabel on art, the single issue collects Pekar’s signature slice-of-life stories about working-class Cleveland, capturing the raw, unvarnished voice that made his work a landmark in autobiographical comics. It’s a compact but essential snapshot of Pekar’s ongoing project to chronicle everyday existence with honesty and grit.