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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katchor, Ben, author, artist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

Urban landscape architecture--Comic books, strips, etc--Fiction.

Urban landscape architecture.

New York (N.Y.)--Comic books, strips, etc.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Fiction.

Physical Description:

109 pages : illustrations (chiefly) ; 23 x 28 cm

Edition:

First Drawn & Quarterly edition.

Other Title:

Cheap novelties : the pleasures of urban decay

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2016.

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.

Notes:

"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].

ISBN:

9781770462632

1770462635

OCLC:

932060444

Publisher Number:

99969533419