Drawn & Quarterly will release a Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition of Ben Katchor’s Cheap Novelties:  The Pleasures of Urban Decay with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer in Fall 2016, 25 years after the release of the first edition.  D&Q has acquired world English rights. 

First released in 1991, the story follows rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl, who photographs a vanishing city, documenting what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America. 

Katchor’s work is routinely mentioned among the best of what graphic novels have to offer (see, for example, “’Time’ Magazine’s Best Comics of 2013” or “The 2014 Eisner Award Nominees”). 

For sample pages, see gallery below.