It simply adds dimension to Terkel's original, illustrating the daily concerns of working men and women. Though several of Pekar's colleagues have connections with the labor movement or activism, this volume does not push a particular political or social agenda.
Working features various artists, including Sharon Rudahl (A Dangerous Woman: the Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman), Terry LaBan (Edge City) and frequent Pekar collaborator Gary Dumm (Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History).
Pekar (American Splendor Our Cancer Year) adapts Terkel's masterpiece of oral history in this loving tribute. A visual treat with a visceral impact, Studs Terkel's Working will delight Terkel fans everywhere, and introduce his most powerful work to a new generation.
Here are riveting accounts of the lives of ordinary Americans-farmers, miners, barbers, hookers, box boys, stockbrokers-depicted with unsurpassed dignity and frankness. In Studs Terkel's Working, Pekar offers a brilliant visual adaptation of Terkel's verbatim interviews, collaborating with both established comics veterans and some of the comic underground's brightest new talent. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of words, it is now adapted into comic book form by comics legend Harvey Pekar, the blue-collar antihero of his American Book Award-winning comics series American Splendor. In the thirty-five years since Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel's Working was first published, it has captivated millions of readers with lyrical and heartbreaking accounts of how their fellow citizens earn a living. I can't speak for Studs, but I suspect he would have been tickled to see it adapted by a former government file clerk and wage slave, who knows all about working." -Roger Ebert " Working has been a book, a radio drama, a Broadway musical, and now a gripping graphic novel.
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