We presented an X-Mas-themed tale from this one-shot title HERE...
...and here's another story of one man's crusade against the Veterans' Administration's bureaucratic incompetence!
There's a lot more to medicine than the stories about doctors, nurses, techs, and ambulance drivers handling life-or-death situations!
There are the stories about how the whole hospital/doctor's practice is kept operating by the people the patient doesn't see...or even know about...like file clerks!
After doing a stint in the Navy, Harvey spent most of his adult life as a file clerk at the Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Cleveland, working there (even while, beginning in 1976, writing American Splendor) until his retirement in 2001, at which point, the slice-of-life comic series and related projects became his full-time gig.
He passed away in 2010 from an accidental overdose of antidepressants while dealing with a third diagnosis of cancer.
(He had already successfully-overcome the disease twice.)
Best of American Splendor
(which contains this story and others from "On the Job")
Or
American Splendor: the Movie
Paul Giamatti IS Harvey Pekar!
(Not available on blu-ray? WHY???)
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He passed away in 2010 from an accidental overdose of antidepressants while dealing with a third diagnosis of cancer.
(He had already successfully-overcome the disease twice.)
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(which contains this story and others from "On the Job")
Or
Paul Giamatti IS Harvey Pekar!
(Not available on blu-ray? WHY???)
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