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In 2006, Pekar released a four-issue ''American Splendor'' miniseries through Vertigo.<ref name="vert-ency">{{Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = American Splendor | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 21 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]] | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref> This was collected in the ''American Splendor: Another Day'' paperback. Vertigo is currently releasing a second "season" of ''American Splendor'', the first issue came out in April 2008 [http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=9218].
[[Image:HPekar.jpg|thumb|left|Harvey Pekar (left) at Hallwalls, in Buffalo, N.Y. Oct. 5,1985.]]
 
==Biographies==
In addition to his autobiographical work on ''American Splendor'', Pekar has done a number of [[Biography|biographies]] on other people's lives, the first of which, ''American Splendor: Unsung Hero'' was released in 2003. ''Unsung Hero'' documented the [[Vietnam War]] experience of Robert McNeill, one of Pekar's African-American coworkers at Cleveland's VA hospital.