Ben Katchor
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Ben Katchor (born November 19, 1951) is an American
Career
Cartooning
Katchor contributed occasional illustrations while on staff for The Kingsman, the student newspaper of Brooklyn College, and he was an early contributor to RAW. He edited and published two issues of Picture Story, which featured his own work, with articles and stories by Peter Blegvad, Jerry Moriarty, Mark Beyer and Martin Millard.
In 1993, Katchor was the subject of a lengthy profile by Lawrence Weschler in The New Yorker[2] and an extended essay by John Crowley in The Yale Review (1998).
His comics have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese.[citation needed]
Katchor wrote and illustrated a "weeklong electronic journal" for Slate in 1997,[3] he contributed articles to the now-defunct Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, did illustrations for the New Yorker and occasionally The New York Times Book Review.
Katchor was the guest editor of the 2017 edition of Best American Comics.
Strips
- Julius Knipl – Paints a fictional version of New York City with a decidedly Jewish/urban sensibility. Julius Knipl has been published in several book collections including Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay (Penguin), Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories, with a foreword by Michael Chabon (Little, Brown & Co.), and The Beauty Supply District (Pantheon Books).
- The Cardboard Valise – A weekly strip chronicling the travels of Emile Delilah to a variety of imaginary nations. It was expanded, collected and published by Pantheon Books in 2011.
- Hotel & Farm – A weekly strip dealing, over alternating weeks, with hotel culture and agriculture. It appeared in weekly newspapers in the U.S.
- Shoehorn Technique – A weekly strip exploring the possibilities of human mobility across socio-economic strata in an imaginary city. Temporarily suspended after 52-weeks.
- Metropolis series – Since 1998, Katchor has produced a monthly strip for the back-page of Metropolis magazine dealing with the topics of architecture and urban design. Katchor's operas The Carbon Copy Building and The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island were adapted from strips in this series. The strips were collected in the 2013 book [1] Hand-Drying in America and other stories (Pantheon Books). This series ended in December 2016.
- "Our Mental Age" – An online comic-strip series started 2017.
- The Dairy Restaurant (2020), an illustrated history of the dairy restaurant with an online addendum.
Theater
Katchor has written several works of
Teaching
Katchor has been an associate professor at Parsons The New School since 2007.[4] He gives "illustrated lectures" at colleges and museums accompanied by slide projections of his work. Since 2012 he has run the New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium, a weekly symposium for the study of text-image work.
Awards
Katchor won an
Bibliography
- Picture Story 2 (editor and contributor) (self-published, 1986)
- Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay (Penguin, 1991)
- Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories(Little, Brown & Co., 1996)
- The Jew of New York (Pantheon Books, 1998)
- Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District (Pantheon Books, 2000)
- The Cardboard Valise (Pantheon Books, 2011)
- Hand-Drying in America (Pantheon Books, 2013)
- "Conversations: Ben Katchor," edited by Ian Gordon (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018)
- [2] The Dairy Restaurant, an illustrated history, March 2020.[5]
References
- ^ Chabon, Michael. Maps and Legends (McSweeney's, 2008).
- ^ Lawrence Weschler, "A Wanderer in the Perfect City," The New Yorker (August 9, 1993), pp. 58–66.
- ^ Katchor, Ben (July 12, 1997). "Diary". Slate Magazine. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
- ^ Parsons, The New School.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 16, 2020.