"This concentration on these minute details is not just to be willfully obscure. It's like a scientist looking at the molecular structure of things. If you really want to see how things work, you have ...

Julius Knipl, the beloved real estate photographer of Ben Katchor's early black and white comics, is a kind of noir character. Wandering around Katchor's short stories, Knipl observes the most trivial ...

Ben Katchor modestly calls his work “picture-stories.” In fact, his comics, graphic novels, and librettos are precisely rendered and powerfully evocative. His realm is an imagined urban past—shadowy ...

Like all New Yorkers, Ben Katchor is obsessed with real estate. The characters of his imagined Gotham don’t pine for spacious lofts in SoHo or the grandeur of The Dakota; their mania is for obscure ...

A page from Ben Katchor’s ‘Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay’ (© Ben Katchor, Drawn & Quarterly 2016) (click to enlarge) “Kids used to camp out on the floor,” Katchor told critic Sam Adams ...

Comics artist Ben Katchor, who returns to Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus next week for the first time since 1999, has thought about and depicted cities in his work for decades. His comic ...

Ben Katchor's syndicated comic strips vary in subject — his Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer, for example, explores the surreal underside of our urban environment by documenting the inner lives ...

Award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Ben Katchor will present an illustrated lecture on his work April 4 at Johns Hopkins University. Katchor's talk, "Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories ...

From left, Ben Katchor; The Slug Bearers of Kayrol IslandPhotos: Patrick McMullan, Carol Rosegg Ben Katchor has long been a cult favorite for his comics — most notably, Julius Knipl, Real Estate ...

At a dingy shop in downtown Fluxion City, you can buy, for only $29.95, the suitcase of a desperate man. It’s no Samsonite: 56 inches but made of cardboard, staples and glue, guaranteed for a mere six ...

Artist Ben Katchor reflects on his best-known comic strip "Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer," which portrayed the often oddly specialized small businesses of the New York City of his childhood.