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Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay

Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay Hardback - 2016

by Ben Katchor

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In a vast and shadowy city of gold skyscrapers, neglected warehouses, juice stands, and coffee shops, Julius Knipl--a rumpled, middle-aged man in a suit and hat--wanders the streets, photographing buildings and pondering the human and visual landscape of the city. This world of epiphanies is captured in a remarkable series of cartoon short stories.

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Hardback. New. 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
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Details

  • Title Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
  • Author Ben Katchor
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Drawn & Quarterly
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781770462632
  • ISBN 9781770462632 / 1770462635
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 10.9 x 0.7 in (21.84 x 27.69 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Graphic novels
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.5

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About the author

Ben Katchor is the cartoonist of Hand-Drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Cardboard 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, Metropolismagazine, and The New Yorker.

Katchor has collaborated on works of musical theater with the 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 School of Design.