My Harvey Year- Part IV

As you may know, I am currently working on one of the last books by Harvey Pekar. People often ask me, “How do you work with someone if they’re…well dead?” The answer is obviously complicated and wrapped up in some emotions. Harvey and I started this project in 2007, we went through two different scripts before we created a third one together. When Harvey passed away last summer we were 2/3s of the way towards a completed script. I spent the remainder of last year fleshing out what we had started together. Yesterday, I completed the layouts for the entire book. My Harvey Year is now well beyond just one year so I think the next post in this series will be called, My Harvey YEARS. And so it goes…