Nationality American | Name Ben Katchor Area(s) Cartoonist | |
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Awards MacArthur Fellowship Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Books Hand‑Drying in America: And Othe, The Cardboard Valise, The Jew of New York, Cheap novelties, Julius Knipl - Real Estate Ph Similar People Mark Mulcahy, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Bobby Steggert | ||
Libretti The Carbon Copy Building | ||
Cartoonist ben katchor on portraying bygone new york
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."
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- Cartoonist ben katchor on portraying bygone new york
- Ben katchor summeracademy 15
- Cartooning
- Strips
- Theater
- Teaching
- Awards
- References
Ben katchor summeracademy 15
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 and an extended essay by John Crowley in The Yale Review (1998).
His comics have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese.
Katchor wrote and illustrated a "weeklong electronic journal" for Slate in 1997, and he contributed articles to the now-defunct Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress.
Katchor was the guest editor of the 2017 edition of Best American Comics.
Strips
Theater
Katchor has written several works of musical theater, including The Rosenbach Company (a tragi-comedy about the life and times of Abe Rosenbach, the preeminent rare-book dealer of the 20th century); ''The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower, an absurdist romance about the chemical emissions and addictive soft-drinks of a ruined tropical factory-island; "A Checkroom Romance," about the culture and architecture of coat-checkrooms and "Up From the Stacks," about a page working the stacks of the New York Public Library in 1975. All feature music by Mark Mulcahy.
Teaching
Katchor has been an associate professor at Parsons The New School since 2007. He also 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 at Parsons, a weekly symposium for the study of text-image work.
Awards
Katchor won an Obie Award for his collaboration with Bang on a Can on The Carbon Copy Building, a "comic book opera" based on his writings and drawings that premiered in 1999. The same year, he was the subject of Pleasures of Urban Decay, a documentary by the San Francisco filmmaker Samuel Ball. The first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Katchor has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.