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Books by Ben Katchor
  | | Hand-Drying in America(1st Edition) And Other Stories (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Ben Katchor, Bob Katchor Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90690-8, ISBN: 0-307-90690-6 "**Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year 2013****NPR's Best Books of the Year 2013**WITH BEAUTIFUL FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUTFrom 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 the twenty-first century.Ben Katchor, a master at twisting mu ..." |
 | | The Cardboard Valise(1st Edition) (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Ben Katchor Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2011 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42114-3, ISBN: 0-375-42114-9 "Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011. One of the finest sequences in Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, that underrated children's classic, concerns "five foot-weary salesmen" resting after a day of "unsuccessfully trying to sell Zizzer-Zoof Seeds, which nobody wants because nobody needs." That's the territory, of melancholy small-time commerce, that cartoonist Ben Katchor has worked his entire career. Beginning with his long-running weekly ..." |
 | | The Dairy Restaurant by Ben Katchor Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Schocken ISBN-13: 978-0-8052-4219-5, ISBN: 0-8052-4219-8 "An entertaining history of Judaism in relation to food and eating ranges from the biblical story of Adam and Eve to the present day, chronicling such significant events as the invention of the restaurant, both in Europe and in America, in an ingenious blend of text and black-and-white images. 25,000 first printing." |
 | | The Jew of New York(Reprint) by Ben Katchor Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2000 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70097-2, ISBN: 0-375-70097-8 "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 Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben Katchor's brilliantly imagined epic that unfolds on the streets of New York a few years later.A disgraced kosher slaughterer, an importer of ..." |
 | | Cheap Novelties(1st Edition) The Pleasures of Urban Decay by Ben Katchor Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Drawn And Quarterly ISBN-13: 978-1-77046-263-2, ISBN: 1-77046-263-5 "The classic graphic novel by the landmark cartoonist is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversary"""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 s ..." |
 | | The Best American Comics 2017(1st Edition) (The Best American Series ) by Ben Katchor, Bill Kartalopoulos, Bill Kartalopoulous, Katchor/Kartalopoulo Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-75036-4, ISBN: 0-544-75036-5 ""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 work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make su ..." |
 | | Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer(Reprint) The Beauty Supply District (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Ben Katchor Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2003 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70098-9, ISBN: 0-375-70098-6 "Typical of Ben Katchor's recursive, compact style, The Beauty Supply District is actually the title of three distinct entities: this collection of over 80 installments of his 8-panel comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" (appearing in The Forward and other weekly papers); a new, 24-page story with which Katchor concludes; and the subject of that final story, a commercial district on the edge of Julius Knipl's imaginary, ..." |
 | | Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer(1st Edition) The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor, Julius Knipl Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2000 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40105-3, ISBN: 0-375-40105-9 "Typical of Ben Katchor's recursive, compact style, The Beauty Supply District is actually the title of three distinct entities: this collection of over 80 installments of his 8-panel comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" (appearing in The Forward and other weekly papers); a new, 24-page story with which Katchor concludes; and the subject of that final story, a commercial district on the edge of Julius Knipl's imaginary, ..." |
 | | The Jew of New York(1st Edition) by Ben Katchor Hardcover, 97 Pages, Published 1998 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40104-6, ISBN: 0-375-40104-0 "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 Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben Katchor's brilliantly imagined epic that unfolds on the streets of New York a few years later.A disgraced kosher slaughterer, an importer of ..." |
 | | Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer(1st Edition) Stories (Library) by Ben Katchor, Michael Chabon Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1996 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-48294-3, ISBN: 0-316-48294-3 "Ben Katchor's dreamscape is peopled by transistor radio listeners, door-knob triers, false eyebrow importers, and a late-night-perambulating real estate photographer named Julius Knipl. The vaguely melancholy stories in his eight-panel comic strips reflect a fondness for the forgotten, the obscure, and the merely overlooked. What happens to the city's wholesale calendar salesmen in February? Who buys last year's tinned seedless gr ..." |
 | | Significant Objects(1st Edition) by Jason Grote, Joshua Glenn, Rob Walker, Nicholson Baker, Jonathan Lethem, Gary Panter, William Gibson, Kurt Andersen, Myla Goldberg, Ben Katchor, Meg Cabot, Mark Frauenfelder, Ben Greenman, Sheila Heti, Shelley Jackson, Heidi Julavits, Neil Labute, Tom Mccarthy, Lydia Millet, Annie Nocenti, Ed Park, Curtis Sittenfeld, Bruce Sterling Flexibound, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Fantagraphics ISBN-13: 978-1-60699-525-9, ISBN: 1-60699-525-1 "Collects the results of a literary experiment in which a best-selling or popular author wrote a short fictional prose story about an object on eBay, raising its value; the profit from the object’s sale then went to charity. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ..." |
 | | Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer Stories by Ben Katchor Published 1998 ISBN-13: 978-0-316-19086-2, ISBN: 0-316-19086-1 |
 | | The Best American Comics 2017 by Ben Katchor, Bill Kartalopoulos 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-75055-5, ISBN: 0-544-75055-1 "JESSE JACOBS The Garden. 4Panel, vol. 1. DYLAN JONES The Longer You Stare the Fatter I'm Guilty. KEITH JONES Secretimes. JULIACKS Architecture of an Atom Epilogue: Dance Ballad Compulsive Tribulations. SEAN KAREMAKER ... AIDAN KOCH Glass Surfaces and Still Pools. KATE LACOUR Vivisectionary II. JEFFREY LEWIS Fuff #11. AMY LOCKHART Puppy Love. Magic Whistle 3.2. CÉLINE LOUP AND ANONYMOUS Silent Treatment. Bad Boyfriends. MARDOU Sky ..." |
 | | FUNNY(1st Edition) (not funny): A Modest Selection of Comic Art Exhibiting Signs of Black Humor by Ivan Brunetti, Chris Cilla, Sue Coe, Lisa Hanawalt, Glenn Head, Tim Hensley, Ian Huebert, Ben Katchor, Michael Kupperman, Ryan Standfest, Daniel Maw, Taylor Mckimens, Travis Millard, Tom Neely, Mark Newgarden, David Paleo, Jonathon Rosen, David Sandlin, Rob Sato, Jon Vermilyea Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2010 by Rotland Press ISBN-13: 978-0-615-34871-1, ISBN: 0-615-34871-8 "Catalog to the exhibition FUNNY (not funny), held at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design WORK-DETROIT gallery, from January 22 - February 26, 2010. The exhibition concerned the presence of Black Humor as manifest in contemporary American alternative comics, and included the work of Ivan Brunetti, Chris Cilla, Sue Coe, Lisa Hanawalt, Glenn Head, Tim Hensley, Ian Huebert, Ben Katchor, Michael Kupperman, Mats!?, Daniel Maw, T ..." |
 | | McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, No. 13(1st Edition) An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, and Illustrated Stories by Chris Ware, Editors Of Mcsweeney's, Chris Ware Mcsweeney's, Eli Horowitz, Dave Eggers, Mcsweeney's Books, Ira Glass, Michael Chabon, Daniel Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez, Milt Gross, Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Adrian Tomine, Joe Matt, Julie Doucet, Chester Brown, Joe Sacco, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Barb Bersche, Gary Panter, Jim Wooding, Robert Crumb Hardcover, 263 Pages, Published 2004 by Mcsweeney's ISBN-13: 978-1-932416-08-4, ISBN: 1-932416-08-0 "This issue is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: Lynda Berry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Malachi B. Cohen, Daniel Clowes, David Collier, Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Julie Douchet, Debbie Drechsler, Bud Fisher, Ira Glass, Glen David Gold, Milt Gross, Philip Guston, David Heatley, Gilbert Hernan ..." |
 | | Mad About the Seventies(1st Edition) The Best of the Decade by Mad Magazine, Ben Katchor Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Little, Brown ISBN-13: 978-0-316-32802-9, ISBN: 0-316-32802-2 "Alfred E. Newman does disco? Ecch! In the bestselling tradition of "MAD About the Sixties, " here is a hilarious look back at the "Disco Decade" from America's foremost satire magazine. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, this MADcap compendium rehashes the best send-ups, takeoffs, and put-ons from the era that gave us Spiro Agnew, smiley faces, and the Bee Gees. You'll be grateful for these dead-on paradies as "The Usu ..." |
 | | Cheap Novelties(1st Edition) The Pleasures of Urban Decay, with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Signed Katchor Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 1991 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-015997-4, ISBN: 0-14-015997-5 "In a vast and shadowy city of gold skyscrapers, neglected warehouses, juice stands, and coffee shops, Julius Knipl--a rumpled, middle-aged man in a suit and hat--wanders the streets, photographing buildings and pondering the human and visual landscape of the city. This world of epiphanies is captured in a remarkable series of cartoon short stories. Eight floors down from cartoonist Ben Katchor's studio on John Street, in the financial d ..." |
 | | El Judio De Nueva York(1st Edition) by Ben Katchor, Óscar Palmer Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 1900 by Astiberri Ediciones, S.L. ISBN-13: 978-84-96815-61-2, ISBN: 84-96815-61-7 "En 1825, Mordecai Noah, politico y dramaturgo de Nueva York poseído por una visión utópica, convocó a todas las tribus perdidas de Israel a una isla cerca de Buffalo con la esperanza de establecer un estado judío. Su fallido plan, una mera nota al pie en la historia judío-americana, es el punto de partida de la brillante epopeya imaginada por Ben Katchor que se desarrolla en las calles de Nueva York unos años más tarde. Un carnicero k ..." |
 | | Odyssee D'une Valise En Carton by Ben Katchor, Corinne Julve Album, 80 Pages, Published 2013 by Rackham ISBN-13: 978-2-87827-153-9, ISBN: 2-87827-153-X "Emile Delilah, célibataire américain, est xénophile : il se passionne pour les coutumes étrangères." |
 | | Der Jude von New York(1st Edition) by Ben Katchor, Kai Pfeiffer, Johann Ulrich Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2009 by Avant-Verlag Gmbh ISBN-13: 978-3-939080-33-6, ISBN: 3-939080-33-0 "Ben Katchors brillant imaginiertes Epos, dass sich auf den Strassen New Yorks entfaltet." |
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