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by Michael Chabon,Ben Katchor
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Author: Michael Chabon,Ben Katchor
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
Pages: 112
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Rating: 4.2
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Category: Comics
Subcategory: Comic Strips
The Knipl stories collected here resurrect a lost metropolis and its residents
The Knipl stories collected here resurrect a lost metropolis and its residents. Ben Katchor's marvelous collection of eight-panel short stories, "Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer", would surely have won the 1996 National Book Award for literary comic strip fiction if there had been such a prize.
Julius Knipl, the rumpled antihero of Ben Katchor's cult cartoon strip, comes alive in this all-new collection of strange and strangely absorbing urban adventures
Julius Knipl, the rumpled antihero of Ben Katchor's cult cartoon strip, comes alive in this all-new collection of strange and strangely absorbing urban adventures. The Knipl stories collected here resurrect a lost metropolis and its residents.
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor (Introduction) (1996). Casanova: Acedia (Backup story with Matt Fraction) (illustrator: Gabriel Bá) (2015).
Ben Katchor's dreamscape is peopled by transistor radio listeners, door-knob triers, false eyebrow importers, and a ting real estate photographer named Julius Knipl. The vaguely melancholy stories in his eight-panel comic strips reflect a fondness for the forgotten, the obscure, and the merely overlooked.
Ben Katchor (born November 19, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for his critically acclaimed comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis magazine, and weekly newspapers in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip.
Start by marking Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer as Want to Read . Michael Chabon's lyrical introduction to this collection is not to be missed, either. It piques the interest without sullying the flavor.
Start by marking Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Ben Katchor, in the wry confines of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, strikes a note of sustained surrealism that both satisfies and sparks new desires. Moody and subtle, Katchor's lopsided sketches complement the text with which the images are awash. Julius Knipl is inundated by proper names that carry the weight of specificity. A foray into this world will not go unrewarded.
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Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as the creator of the last great American comic strip. Katchor's comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories, which began in 1988, brought him to the attention of the readers of alternative weekly newspapers along with a coterie of artists who have gone on to public acclaim. In the mid-1990s, NPR ran audio versions of several Julius Knipl stories, narrated by Katchor and starring Jerry Stiller in the title role. An early contributor to RAW, Katchor has contributed to Forward, New Yorker, Slate, and weekly newspapers.
The Best American Short Stories 2005. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. by Ben Katchor · Michael Chabon. by Michael Chabon · Katrina Kenison. Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jona.
detail from Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, episode 326, 1994. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip written and drawn by Ben Katchor since 1988. A collection of Julius Knipl strips was published in 1991 by Penguin Books (as a RAW One-Shot) as Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay. Another collection was published in 1996 by Little, Brown and Company under the title Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories. Introduction to Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer Archived 2006-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, Ben Katchor (Little Brown, 1996). a b Aubrey 2012, p. 429.