Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay #[nn]

This collection brings together Ben Katchor's early comic strips originally published in the New York Press and other alternative weeklies, capturing the gritty, poetic underbelly of urban life through his signature ink-washed panels and melancholic observations of forgotten city spaces. Drawn & Quarterly's 2016 edition compiles these previously scattered works into a single volume, offering readers a cohesive look at Katchor's formative explorations of decay, commerce, and the peculiar rituals of street-level existence.