Description
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing city-an urban landscape of low-rent apartment buildings, obsolete industries, monuments to forgotten people and events, and countless sources of inexpensive food. In Katchor's signature pen and ink wash style, Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America that is as moving today as it was twenty-five years ago. In 1991, the original Cheap Novelties appeared in an unassuming paperback from the RAW contributor; it would become one of the first graphic novels of the contemporary graphic novel golden age and set the stage for Katchor as he is now regarded-a modern day cartooning genius. Drawn and Quarterly's 25th anniversary edition will be a deluxe hardcover reformatted to Katchor's original vision and will feature a new cover.
The classic graphic novel by the landmark cartoonist is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversary.
About the Author
Ben Katchor is the cartoonist of Hand-drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Card- board Valise. He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was a fellow at The American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Katchor has created comics for the Forward, Metropolis Magazine, and the New Yorker. Katchor has collaborated on works of musical theater with composer Mark Mulcahy and he is the only cartoonist to have won an Obie. His TED Talk is titled Comics of Bygone New York. Katchor lives in New York, where he is an Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design.
Reviews
Ben Katchor's sublime collectionchronicles the wanderings of Julius Knipl, a rumpled photographer-for-hire taking pictures of buildings in a gently surreal streetscape that vaguely resembles Manhattan's financial district of old. Knipl laments a fading world of dairy cafeterias, tchotchke salesmen and trophy manufacturers. -Wall Street Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781770462632
Author Ben Katchor
Format Hardback
Page Count 112
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
Weight(grams) 804g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 223mm * 17mm
The classic graphic novel by the landmark cartoonist is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversary.
About the Author
Ben Katchor is the cartoonist of Hand-drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Card- board Valise. He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was a fellow at The American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Katchor has created comics for the Forward, Metropolis Magazine, and the New Yorker. Katchor has collaborated on works of musical theater with composer Mark Mulcahy and he is the only cartoonist to have won an Obie. His TED Talk is titled Comics of Bygone New York. Katchor lives in New York, where he is an Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design.
Reviews
Ben Katchor's sublime collectionchronicles the wanderings of Julius Knipl, a rumpled photographer-for-hire taking pictures of buildings in a gently surreal streetscape that vaguely resembles Manhattan's financial district of old. Knipl laments a fading world of dairy cafeterias, tchotchke salesmen and trophy manufacturers. -Wall Street Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781770462632
Author Ben Katchor
Format Hardback
Page Count 112
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly
Weight(grams) 804g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 223mm * 17mm
