Last night’s Spinning On Air featured a deliciously long interview with both Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner, talking mostly about Our Cancer Year but also about American Splendor and the film. I’d link to the stream for that episode, but it looks like the site hasn’t been updated in a couple of weeks. And speaking of the film, the more I see and hear from the real Harvey and Joyce, the more impressed I am with actors who played them. Both were perfectly cast and I don’t think they could have done more justice to their roles. I’d encourage everyone again to go see it, but a couple of you have let me know that it’s not playing nationally, at least not yet. It’s currently out in New York, parts of California, and Cleveland, but the wide release is scheduled for “a later date.”

And since it’s a comic-turned-movie sort of weekend, I re-read Ghost World this morning. Another good one to read and/or rent.