Harvey Pekar shifted the culture of American comics in 1976 with the publication of American Splendor--a chronicle of his annoyance with co-workers, old ladies in grocery lines, and women who wouldn't date him. In American Splendor, Pekar has "proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fictions, they can hold a mirror up to life." (New York Times) Drawn by such artists as R. Crumb, Greg Budgett, and Gerry Shamray, American Splendor became the critically acclaimed 2003 film of the same name.