Coroner Determines Harvey Pekar’s July Passing Due To Accidental Prescription Drug Overdose

According to a variety of industry reports circling around this blog posting at Cleveland.com, Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller ruled the writer Harvey Pekar's July 12 death as one natural causes, due to an accidental ingestion of fluoxetine and bupropion. Both drugs are prescribed for depression. Pekar, whose initially self-published, mostly autobiographical stories of quotidian details set in his native Cleveland influenced a generation of comics-makers and brought the writer a measure of celebrity in comics and without, suffered from clinical depression. That same blog post notes that the coroner signed off on Pekar's death certificate on September 27.
 
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