Joyce Brabner, writer, editor, and activist, likely best known for her longtime role in the American Splendor comic books written by her late husband, Harvey Pekar, has passed away at the age of 72.
Brabner had been a comic book reader as a child, but she wasn’t a devoted comic book reader later on in life. She worked in Delaware at a non-profit helping prisoners and their families. She explained her work in a wonderful career-spanning interview with Jillian Steinhauer:
During this period, she became the co-owner of a comic book store in Wilmington, Delaware. She became a regular reader of American Splendor, the classic autobiographical comic book series by writer Harvey Pekar, working with a variety of different artists drawing stories from Pekar’s life. When she missed an issue, she wrote a postcard to Pekar to try to get the missing issue. They began corresponding, and soon, were married. She then, naturally, became a character in Pekar’s American Splendor…
Joyce Brabner, writer, editor, and activist, likely best known for her longtime role in the American Splendor comic books written by her late husband, Harvey Pekar, has passed away at the age of 72.
Brabner had been a comic book reader as a child, but she wasn’t a devoted comic book reader later on in life. She worked in Delaware at a non-profit helping prisoners and their families. She explained her work in a wonderful career-spanning interview with Jillian Steinhauer:
During this period, she became the co-owner of a comic book store in Wilmington, Delaware. She became a regular reader of American Splendor, the classic autobiographical comic book series by writer Harvey Pekar, working with a variety of different artists drawing stories from Pekar’s life. When she missed an issue, she wrote a postcard to Pekar to try to get the missing issue. They began corresponding, and soon, were married. She then, naturally, became a character in Pekar’s American Splendor…
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