Cheap novelties : the pleasures of urban decay ; with, Julius Knipl, real estate photographer /
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 forgo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal :
Drawn & Quarterly,
2016
[Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn Quarterly, 2016 [Montreal] : 2016 |
| Edition: | First Drawn Quarterly edition |
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| 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 |
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| Item Description: | 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 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "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] |
| Physical Description: | 109 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm 109 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm 109 pages : illustrations (chiefly) ; 23 x 28 cm |
| ISBN: | 1770462635 9781770462632 |