For the first time, Harvey Pekar tells the story of his childhood as the son of Jewish immigrants. Through his tumultuous adolescence as a neighborhood tough guy on the streets of Cleveland, his disastrous four-week stint in the Navy and the earliest stages of his life as a writer, this tour de force graphic novel is the universal tale of a young man's search for himself through the frustrations, redemptions, and complexities of ordinary life. For all those like Harvey, who have tried, failed and lived to quit another day.