Ben Katchor and the Architecture of Comics

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Program:: 
Words and Pictures
Air date: 
Thu, 04/11/2013 - 12:00am
Words & Pictures for April 2013

Ben Katchor, the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship grant, is also a writer, teacher, and performer of TED Talk recitations.  His familiar-seeming yet skewed urban vignettes, such as Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise, have been appearing in magazines and alternative newspapers for over a quarter century.  More recently, he's been collaborating with musician Mark Mulcahy on an absurdist musical play, The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, and a comic-book opera, The Carbon Copy Building, both of which won Obie Awards.  Seemingly unable to successfully arrive in Portland, Katchor joins host S.W. Conser on the phone from Seattle to discuss his latest book, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories, a collection of architecture-related comics from Metropolis magazine.

Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture

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Comments

Submitted by hugesilverstone (not verified) on Fri, 04/12/2013 - 12:45am

i'm happy and proud for mr. Ben Katchor for being the first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship grant, and not just a writer, teacher, and performer of TED Talk recitations. a high five and a thumbs up sign too. how to buy real facebook fans

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