Cheap Novelties Av Ben Katchor

<p><b>"Twenty-five years on, [<i>Cheap Novelties</i>''] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographics are still fresh and relevant."</b><i><b>¿The Guardian<br></b><br></i><i>Cheap Novelties</i> 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, <i>Cheap Novelties</i> 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. <br><br>In 1991, the original <i>Cheap Novelties</i> appeared in an unassuming paperback from the RAW contributor; it would become one of the first books of the contemporary