Comic Related - If It's Comic Related, You'll Find It Here!

The current kickstarter campaign offers the public a way to celebrate comics as art and literature at a Cleveland Heights public library. A literary landmark, they've proposed a desk that's always filled with paper and pencils for people to sit and write or draw comics at the same place where Harvey Pekar liked to work.

Mounted on the desk, a sculpted bronze comic book "page." Stepping out from a panel, Harvey-- using his semi celebrity to focus on the creative possibilities of the art form he opened up to so many people. On the reverse, gridded into bronze ruled "panels," a giant slate storyboard that looks very much the way Harvey always started his own scripts. (He wrote and drew stick figures, just like Paul Giamatti in that movie.) Plenty of chalk and plenty of encouragement from a library that cherishes comics. At different times each year, a librarian can unlock the middle drawer of the desk and pull out copies of books that Harvey read as a kid that inspired him to write, AMERICAN SPLENDORscripts, memorabilia and anything else that could inspire library patrons to be creative with comics.

The desk and statue will be mounted next to the library's "Harvey & Friends Used Bookstore" (named after Harvey. The library knew and loved him) and facing the library's ever growing comics shelves. Every so often a Kickstarter campaign runs over. If that happens, once all the bills are paid, the Estate of Harvey Pekar will use the rest of the money to add to the library's no-white-gloves, read and enjoy(!) collection.

Join the campaign via kickstarter.com/projects/1844705603/

Source: Our good friend Chad Lambert