I really like Anthony Bourdain. He’s the sort of writer and TV host who manages to do a show where he’s the centerpiece without seeming especially egotistical, usually through a careful application of self-skewering humor and allowing the camera to show him at his worst. So, when he went to Cleveland to hang out with Michael Ruhlman and meet Harvey Pekar in an episode of No Reservations, I made sure to sit down and check it out. Despite an overreliance on cheesy comics-to-real-life transitions in the Pekar segment, it was good-enough TV with more than a couple laugh-out-loud moments for me.
Neatly enough, both Bourdain and Pekar did online comics to promote the show with art by frequent Pekar collaborator Gary Dumm. Mind you, the interface is completely crappy, but it’s somewhat heartening to see comics crop up in a place like this without the generally-inevitable overuse of “graphic novels” to justify the affair.
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