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Ben Katchor - Conversations (Hardcover)
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Ben Katchor - Conversations (Hardcover)
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series
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Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as "the
creator of the last great American comic strip." Katchor's comic
strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories, which began
in 1988, brought him to the attention of the readers of alternative
weekly newspapers along with a coterie of artists who have gone on
to public acclaim. In the mid-1990s, NPR ran audio versions of
several Julius Knipl stories, narrated by Katchor and starring
Jerry Stiller in the title role. An early contributor to RAW,
Katchor has contributed to Forward, New Yorker, Slate, and weekly
newspapers. He edited and published two issues of Picture Story,
which featured his own work, with articles and stories by Peter
Blegvad, Jerry Moriarty, and Mark Beyer. In addition to being a
dramatist, Katchor has been the subject of profiles in the New
Yorker, a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and a Guggenheim
Fellowship, and a fellow at both the American Academy in Berlin and
the New York Public Library. Katchor's work is often described as
zany or bizarre, and author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work
as "one or two notches too far" beyond an absurdist reality. And
yet the work resonates with its audience because, as was the case
with Knipl's journey through the wilderness of a decaying city,
absurdity was only what was usefully available; absurdity was the
reality. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories presaged
the themes of Katchor's work: a concern with the past, an interest
in the intersection of Jewish identity and a secular commercial
culture, and the limits and possibilities of urban life.
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