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 reformatted to Katchor's original vision.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Drawn AND Quarterly
ISBN-13
9781770462632
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223657111
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cheap Novelties: the Pleasures of Urban Decay
Author
Ben Katchor
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Comics
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
279mm
Item Width
223mm
Item Weight
804g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ben Katchor
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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