Harvey Heads from Smith Magazine, home of the Pekar Project:
To toast Harvey’s 70th birthday, the Pekar Project posse blew the horn to assemble this surprise gallery of freshly drawn Harvey Heads. Our magic number was, naturally, 70, but so many artists heeded the call that we’re now at 90+ noggins—and the heads keep rolling in. Take a stroll through this illustrated salute to a beloved American original, and join us in wishing Harvey Pekar a very happy birthday.
Okay, so it was last week. My bad.
Make sure not the miss the Harvey Pekar Guided Tour of Cleveland.
And even after nearly 70 years of ups and down, the artist still loves his birthplace, an unquestionable fact as Pekar takes us on a tour of his Cleveland Heights neighborhood the next day. Every inch of this city is a Pekar story, from Tommy’s Restaurant, the author’s favorite haunt since opening in 1972, to Big Fun, an expansive novelty store whose friendly owner, Steve Presser, is the subject of an upcoming strip.
