Harvey Pekar "Hypothetical Quandry"

I believe this to be one of the more hot-linked images from my brother's blog. He, and I, originally saw it in the anthology "The New Comics Anthology", a trade paperback from the early 1990s that seems to have been an attempt at mainstream respectability garnering. The story was placed somewhere amongst a Will Eisner short and Mary Fleener pieces. (The autobiographical section was heavy on female cartoonists, with the idea that "this is where female cartoonists have gravitated and found a place for themselves.")

Jeff had a low-rent version / parody/ homage in "Struat" once. Where Harvey Pekar rattled off his worries about missing a book-deal opportunity, Jeff rattled off about missing a simple job opportunity. Final panel: "Ah. Cheap Bread."

At this point, when I think Harvey Pekar, I think, sort of subliminably, "Fresh Bread."