Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District - Softcover

Katchor, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375700986 ISBN 13: 9780375700989

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 2003

Synopsis

Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center.

In "The Beauty Supply District," a new twenty-four-page story, Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms -- from the shape of an olive jar to the score of a string quartet.

About this title

Review:

''[Katchor] produces small and absolutely exquisite narratives, all set in a city very much like New York, though his New York is somehow more charming, more gently surreal.''

''An irresistible scrapbook of snapshots whose subjects are as familiar as they are improbable.''

''Katchor is a brilliant humanist; his complex, sometimes arcane strips teem with the small pleasures and frustrations of city dwellers.''

''A hands-down brilliant comics collection by one of America's most entertaining and intellectually satisfying cartoonists.''

About the Author:

Ben Katchor is the author of The Jew of New York. His weekly comic strips, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise, have been appearing since 1988 in The Forward, among other newspapers. Katchor also produces a monthly strip for Metropolis magazine. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375700986
• ISBN 13: 9780375700989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108