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November 02, 2005
Harvey Pekar
I was in a group with words but no pictures. Along with group mates we came up with young and somewhat cheerful looking Harvey. I suppose that if we had to draw pictures individually I am sure that everyone would have come up with different Harveys. Since I already have clear image of what Harvey Pekar looks like, it is hard for me to take out that image and go back and try to imagine what he looks like. Once it is stored in my brain, it is hard to take it out.
When I look at the words and images together I was disappointed that there weren’t much filler in the real Harvey Pekar comic. Personally I thought the comic would look full of decoration in the background. When I saw the gloomy looking man my expectation and excitement somewhat went down.
After looking at the comic and the movie my imagination of our initial young looking Harvey completely changed. I understood that Harvey Pekar was not as happy, innocent, young looking as Harvey who wore glasses and had pee on his pants. I liked “our” Harvey better because as a group we had created a character with personally and humor.
Posted by lcisbold at November 2, 2005 11:00 AM