In the comic Hall of Fame, theres Batman, Superman, Spiderman... and everyman. Meet real-life hero Harvey Pekar. Hes a shuffling, grumbling file-clerk from Cleveland, a social misfit and an observational genius. Pekar chronicles the mishaps and minutiae of his own life in American Splendor and gets his pal Robert Crumb on board as illustrator-extraordinaire. His cult-comic elevates all-things-mundane into an artform and makes Pekar a celebrity underdog in the process. AMERICAN SPLENDOR laces live-action, animation, documentary and biopic together with laugh-out-loud humour. Stylistically brilliant, this is a clever and engaging portrayal of an unlikely hero.