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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: 3.85 · 7,585 ratings · 916 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
Julius Knipl, Real Estate P...

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Cheap Novelties: The Pleasu...

4.15 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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The Jew of New York

3.54 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate P...

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Hand-Drying in America and ...

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The Cardboard Valise

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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

“I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.”
Ben Katchor, The Jew of New York

“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”
Ben Katchor, The Jew of New York
tags: drama, jews

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