It's frustrating, but I think the medium of the graphic history actually does the biography a disservice in the three primary pieces. Helpful.

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Publication date 2009 Topics Beats (Persons) -- Comic books, strips, etc Publisher New York : Hill and Wang Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; oliverwendellholmeslibrary; phillipsacademy; americana Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Phillips Academy, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Language English. . In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. “The Beats: A Graphic History is everything a radical history should be: critical, admiring, quirky and apologetic . The Beats: A Graphic History Harvey Pekar , Ed Piskor. Forums.

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The Beats: A Graphic History is the story of the beat generation, characterized by nonconformity and defiance of conventional writing, as told by comic legend Harvey Pekar and his artistic collaborator Ed Piskor.

In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. From cover to cover, The Beats is a wonderful history of a complicated and misunderstood cultural movement—its achievements, its place in history, its flaws and its brilliance.

The Beats also provides portraits of lesser-famed artists and writers of the movement. The beats : a graphic history by Pekar, Harvey.

In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself.

In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Author: Tim Jacobsen. In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. . From cover to cover, The Beats is a wonderful history of a complicated and misunderstood cultural movement--its achievements, its place in history, its flaws and its brilliance. Free shipping .

. . viii, 199 p. : 24 cm … The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes,... $19.10. New Comics. The Beats: A Graphic History is an inspirational five star book. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and the Mad magazine artist Peter Kuper, The Beats takes us on a wild tour of a generation …

In The Beats: A Graphic History , those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. At its best, which is quite good indeed, The Beats reflects the creative energy of the movement it chronicles—it makes you want to dash off a poem before you have time to reconsider, or dust off your beret and organize some kind of jam session.