Ben Katchor: Cheap Novelties [2016] hardback ZSCFI scary meat-eaters and peaceful plant-eaters

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Ben Katchor: Cheap Novelties [2016] hardback ZSCFI scary meat-eaters and peaceful plant-eatersCheap 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