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Vietnam veteran featured in Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor" remembers his friend
Robert McNeill inspired "American Splendor" miniseries while working with Pekar
by WKSU's AMANDA RABINOWITZ


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Amanda Rabinowitz
 
Unsung Hero was the title of an American Splendor miniseries about Robert McNeill. McNeill is a Vietnam veteran who worked with Harvey Pekar at the VA hospital in Cleveland.
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One of the subjects of comic-book writer Harvey Pekar's biographies remembers his friend as a truth seeker and fellow jazz enthusiast.

Pekar, who died Monday, began writing the autobiographical comic series "American Splendor" in 1976, chronicling his life working as a file clerk at a veteran's hospital in Cleveland. A three-issue miniseries called "Unsung Hero" focused on Robert McNeill, a Vietnam veteran and one of Pekar's coworkers at the hospital. McNeill talks with WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz.

Robert McNeill remembers Pekar

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