Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District

In The Beauty Supply District, Ben Katchor's beloved series Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer takes a surreal, melancholic turn as it follows the photographer through a single, sprawling issue from Pantheon. Katchor's signature pen-and-ink style captures a vanished New York of forgotten storefronts and eccentric merchants, with this volume exploring a neighborhood where commerce and memory blur into a strange, poetic geography. A quiet masterpiece of urban observation, it distills Katchor's decades-long meditation on the city's overlooked corners into a single, resonant story.