Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer

A long-running series of urban meditations from Penguin, Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer follows a solitary photographer through the overlooked corners of a fading city. Created by Ben Katchor, the strip originally appeared in the Forward before being collected into a single volume in 1991, and its quiet, melancholic observations of forgotten storefronts and architectural oddities have continued to resonate with readers ever since.