Talk:American Splendor

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Maybe this should be merged w/ Harvey Pekar and redirected there. Brodo 05:39, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I was thinking the opposite -- putting the movie and the comic on the same page isn't fair, as the movie contains adaptation of multiple works of Pekar, including Our Cancer Year. --Jacqui M Schedler 02:54, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree, splitting the film from the comic makes sense as they are definitely distinct entities. Dancarney 10:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Article created, just copied all the text into a new article, but I'll wikify it. Not sure what to do with the text that remains on this page yet. --duncan 18:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 stage play 2 9/7 Revisions 3 Fair use rationale for Image:AmericanSplendor1.jpg 4 Trivia Section

[edit] stage play

User:Pegship added a tag to the stage section, suggesting that we discuss splitting it off into another article. I'd say no - just because there's a pretty small amount of information available on those three productions, and there's unlikely to ever be any more information other than a few reviews in old newspapers. And it might be a little misleading to have an article called "American Splendor (play)" that really describes three different independently written adaptations.

Also, there was an error - the actual first production was left out. I've added it. [whoops, looks like I made an anonymous edit by mistake, but that was me] ←Hob 02:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

It makes sense to keep all topics on American Splendor together. In reality it is easier to find under one article and there is really not that much information to go through.

[edit] 9/7 Revisions

This article was plainly inaccurate in some places and I changed that--Pekar was doing bio as well as autobio very early on so it's not fair to say this was outside his previous scope. I removed the parentheses around the non-Crumb artists because their contributions *WERE* important, not merely parenthical. Pekar appeared on Letterman SEVERAL times after the initial fight, so I've revised that. I've also corrected the bit that suggests he was self-published up until the last issue of the regular series (incorrect) and appended a bit about him losing thousands on his work to a sentence that suggests he was actually making some kind of calculated business move and not just losing his shirt to put out a comic. Thoughts?

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:AmericanSplendor1.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia Section

What is the logic of having a prepared box informing everyone that Trivia Sections are discouraged? Why discourage them? Why not either say yes or no? Discouraging them is a milquetoast way of straddling the fence and remaining noncommittal while whining about what other contributors are doing. Be an adult – take a stand! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.15 (talk) 13:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)