Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay

Synopsis

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. Ben Katchor. 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].