Ben Katchor

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction
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Julius Knipl, the rumpled antihero of Ben Katchor's cult cartoon strip, comes alive in this all-new collection of strange and strangely absorbing urban adventures. The Knipl stories collected here resurrect a lost metropolis and its residents, summon...

• Jan-2001
• / Literary
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In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewis...

• Aug-2003
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Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant...

• Feb-2011
• / Literary
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 Ben Katchor (“The creator of the last great American comic strip.” -- Michael Chabon) gives us his first book in more than ten years: the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who, in some way or another, in­hab...

• Mar-2013
• / Literary
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From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban planning, product design, and architecture -- a surrealist handbook for the rebuilding of society in th...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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The classic graphic novel by the landmark cartoonist is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversaryCheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor''s extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumple...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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"Every last page is worth a look." -- Bustle Ben Katchor, "the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip" (New York Times Book Review), selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2017 showcases the ...