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Joyce Brabner (born March 1, 1952〔Miller, John Jackson. ("Comics Industry Birthdays" ), ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', June 10, 2005. Accessed January 1, 2011. (WebCitation archive ).〕) is a writer of political comics who sometimes collaborated with her late husband Harvey Pekar. Brabner is also a liberal social activist who raised funds via a Kickstarter campaign for a Harvey Pekar Comics as Art and Literature memorial statue and desk, installed October 2012 at the Cleveland Heights Public Library, where the couple often worked. 〔(Kickstarter )〕〔"(Harvey Pekar statue unveiled at library is tribute to the late graphic novelist from Cleveland )" by Tom Breckenridge, The Plain Dealer, October 14, 2012.〕 She later agreed to help build the Harvey Pekar Park in Cleveland Heights, OH in July 2015: Brabner stated: "For a few years, now, I’ve been asked to endorse installation of a big, permanent “Harvey Pekar” billboard on a wall in my neighborhood: an image of American Splendor #1 “where it all started.” I’ve always said no. This year, I saw an opportunity and said I would co-operate if a nearby corner was returned to its earlier, youth/arts friendly state by removing the big blocky “people bumper” planters that were installed to discourage assembly– and by welcoming back young people, street musicians, storytellers, chess players, etc. to a communal meeting space and encouraging artists, storytellers and comics makers. The corner is where (young) Harvey used to try out material on the crowd, as a sort of stand up comedian who later wrote and published his stories about neighborhood life in his American Splendor autobio comic books. The spot had been a haven for nonconformist and creative youth until overblown anxiety about flash mobs and kids hanging around without money to support local business led to curfews and what many felt was repressive “rezoning” and redesign. On July 25, Cleveland Heights will turn the space where it really did all start for Harvey into “Harvey Pekar Park,” complete with tiny amphitheater for future “Harveys” and small-scale performance. I’ve designed permanent banners of a special American Splendor story (illustrated by Joseph Remnant) that can be read as you walk from lamp post to lamp post. 〔http://www.comicsbeat.com/harvery-pekar-park-dedicated-today-with-fest-installation-in-cleveland/#comments〕 ==Biography== Brabner recalls "read() comics when I was five or six years old - including "Mad Magazine", her first exposure to political satire.〔 Drifting away from comics as she grew older and discovered that "for the same amount of money I could get on the bus and go down to the library," she nevertheless remembered "a lot of what I'd read."〔 Living "in Delaware working with people in prison, with kids in trouble," running a non-profit culture-based support program for inmates in the Delaware correctional system, Brabner was a founder and manager of "The Rondo Hatton Center for the Deforming Arts," a small theater space in Wilmington, Delaware. (Hatton played horror roles — The Creeper — in the early 1940s without makeup because he was severely disfigured by a glandular disease.) During this time, Brabner became friendly with ''"two sometime artists who were very involved in comic fandom"'', which "seemed like a lot of fun."〔 Feeling burned out from "working with courts, with sexual abusers of children and so on," Brabner began working with Tom Watkins, who "was doing a lot of costumes for the Phil Seuling comic shows."〔 Moonlighting "as a costumer while continuing to work in the prison programs () had organized on () own," while not spending much time at conventions or comic shops, she nevertheless eventually became co-owner of a comic book (and theatrical costumes) store herself.〔 Her store stocked Harvey Pekar's ''American Splendor'', but when the store "ran out of an issue" (one of Brabner's partners selling the last copy of ''American Splendor #6'' without her getting a chance to read it), Brabner sent Pekar a postcard directly, asking for a copy, and the two "began to correspond."〔 Developing a phone relationship, after a stay in the hospital by Brabner, Pekar spoke to her daily and sent her a collection of old records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joyce Brabner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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