Edition |
First Drawn & Quarterly edition. |
Description |
109 pages : illustrations (chiefly) ; 23 x 28 cm |
Note(S) |
"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]. |
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. |
Subject(S) |
Urban landscape architecture -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Graphic novels.
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Comics (Graphic works)
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Fiction.
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Added Title |
Cheap novelties : the pleasures of urban decay |
ISBN |
9781770462632 (hardback) |
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1770462635 (hardback) |
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