# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harvey-pekar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:11:25.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harvey-pekar"
name: "Harvey Pekar"
slug: "harvey-pekar"
description: "Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a well-received film adaptation of the same name."
tagline: "American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality (1939-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pekar_small.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-10-08"
deathDate: "2010-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.37
  momentum:             24.05639599947821
  historical:           22.66611733333334
  currentAttention:     8.840000000000002
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0670688"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.harveypekar.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8"
    title: "Пикар, Харви"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Harvey Pekar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump