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

by Katchor, Ben

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Drawn & Quarterly, 2016.

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

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

First Drawn & Quarterly edition.

109 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

"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."--Colphon.

"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."--From publisher.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels.

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