Later most of these were repackaged into a trade paper back through Image Comics called "Vignettes". In the late 1970s Jim Valentino began his career with autobiographical comics which sprung out from him having literally sold pages laid out on the sidewalk as he'd sit there leaned against a store front.The series led to Pekar meeting his wife Joyce Brabner, who later co-wrote their graphic novel Our Cancer Year about his brush with lymphoma. In 1976 Harvey Pekar began his long-running self-published series American Splendor, which collected short stories written by Pekar, usually about his daily life as a file clerk, and illustrated by a variety of artists. This was followed by a longer, fictionalized work, Hadashi no Gen ( Barefoot Gen), which was later adapted into three films.
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