Further Details Title: Cheap Novelties Condition: New Subtitle: The Pleasures of Urban Decay Author: Ben Katchor Format: Hardback Type: Hardback ISBN-10: 1770462635 EAN: 9781770462632 ISBN: 9781770462632 Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly Genre: Manga Release Date: 11/10/2016 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: CA Item Height: 279mm Item Length: 223mm Item Width: 17mm Item Weight: 804g Release Year: 2016 Description: 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 graphic novels of the contemporary graphic novel golden age and set the stage for Katchor as he is now regarded-a modern day cartooning genius. Drawn and Quarterly's 25th anniversary edition will be a deluxe hardcover reformatted to Katchor's original vision and will feature a new cover. Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing. |