Harvey Pekar on Sonny Stitt

Following my post on Sonny Stitt two weeks ago, I received an email from reader Joel Lewis. In his note, Joel mentioned underground comic-book writer Harvey Pekar, whose life's struggles were the basis of American Splendor (2003), a must-see film starring Paul Giamatti. The point of Joel's note was to hip me to a series of ingenious frames from one of Pekar's strips that mentioned Stitt and his proclivity for cranking out similar-sounding albums in the 1960s and 1970s. (Pekar's latest book can be found at Amazon.) Here are the Stitt frames...

 






 

Here's the trailer to American Splendor...

Comments

[Rab Hines]

You'll recall, of course, that Pekar did the notes to the fine "Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952"

Love Stitt; thank you.

[mrebks]

That's Harvey, all right... always hoist on his own Pekard.

[m.malloy]

Theres Actually a strip done by pekar on Albert Alyer, and Joe lovano, real interesting, i don't agree with him on ayler though.