Ben Katchor





Ben Katchor

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Brooklyn, NY, The United States

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Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. Julius Knipl has been published in several book collections including Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay and The Beauty Supply District. Other serialized comics by Katchor include The Jew Of New York (collected and published as a graphic novel in 1998), The Cardboard Valise and Hotel & Farm. He regularly contributes comics and drawings to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Metropolis magazine.


Average rating: 3.97 · 509 ratings · 72 reviews · 7 distinct works
Julius Knipl, Real Estate P...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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The Jew of New York
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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The Cardboard Valise
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2011
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Cheap Novelties: The Pleasu...
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1991
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The Dairy Restaurant
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“Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.”
Ben Katchor, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories

“After forty years of selling wholesale industrial deodorizing supplies, one establishment is forced to open its doors to the public.

In the lingo of the trade, a salesman explains why their large institution buyers have gone elsewhere.

Who wants to stand downwind of the League o' Nations every time some freshman with a bladder infection pulls a Nebuchadnezzar?”
Ben Katchor, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories

“You see these unsold goods taking up space in busy stores and ask yourself, 'Who would ever buy such a thing? To whose antiquated and misguided sense of taste would such a thing appeal?' To the dead, I answer! The dead are the eternally out of fashion!

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These piles of unsold goods are conclusive proof of the existence of an eternal and insatiable appetite.”
Ben Katchor, The Cardboard Valise

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