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12 quotes by Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor Born Benjamin Katchor 1951 (age 63–64) Brooklyn, New York Nationality American Area(s) Cartoonist Notable works Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer Awards Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995 MacArthur Fellowship, 2000 http://www.katchor.com Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The New...
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You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know... →

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I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

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A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

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I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

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The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to... →

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I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on... →

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I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It... →

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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they... →

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Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that... →

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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the... →

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