Research Catalog

Title

Cheap novelties : the pleasures of urban decay, with Julius Knipl, real estate photographer / Ben Katchor.

Author

Katchor, Ben

Publication

[Montreal] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2016.

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Details

Description

109 pages : chiefly illustrations; 23 x 28 cm

Summary

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 books of the contemporary graphic novel golden age, and it set the stage for Katchor to become regarded as a modern-day cartooning genius. Drawn & Quarterly's twenty-fifth anniversary edition is a deluxe hardcover.

Alternative Title

Cheap novelties : the pleasures of urban decay

Subject

• Urban landscape architecture > Comic books, strips, etc. > Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) > Comic books, strips, etc
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels.
• Romans graphiques.

Note

• "Cheap Novelties was originally published as a RAW one-shot by Penguin Books in 1991. The Single page strips in this book originally appeared in the New York Press from April 20, 1988, to March 27, 1991"--page [111].

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781770462632
• 1770462635

OCLC

• 932060444
• SCSB-11179470

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library