Ben Katchor Biography

In the antique buildings of New York City now overgrown with tawdry fixtures and the modernized hopes of its denizens Ben Katchor listens for the stories that fill his wry perceptive (and slightly surreal) comic strips of urban life. Downtrodden characters and objects get equal time in a slant spotlight and while their interplay is often pathetic it points to profound truths about history memory and human hopes.
Katchor is author of several comics collections including Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay The Jew of New York and Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer. He's been a Guggenheim Fellow and has also written for the stage works such as The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island. In May he premieres A Check-room Romance a musical tragicomedy co-written with Mark Mulcahy
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