The Cleveland Arts Prize organization, which celebrates “creative promise and accomplishment in Northeast Ohio,” has named Harvey Pekar as a recipient of its Lifetime Achievement award.

Pekar, a Cleveland native, has been called the “Lenny Bruce of comix.” While he’s best known for American Splendor – the comic and the movie — he also was a music and book critic, contributing reviews to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Down Beat and Jazz.

The winners of the Arts Prize will be honored July 7 at a ceremony in Cleveland.

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