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Julius Knipl and the Beauty Supply District

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Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center.

In "The Beauty Supply District," a new twenty-four-page story, Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms — from the shape of an olive jar to the score of a string quartet.

Synopsis:

Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center.<P>In "The Beauty Supply District", a new twenty-four-page story, Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms — from the shape of an olive jar to the score of a string quartet.
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About the Author

Ben Katchor is the author of The Jew of New York. His weekly comic strips, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise, have been appearing since 1988 in The Forward, among other newspapers. Katchor also produces a monthly strip for Metropolis magazine. He lives in New York City.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780375401053
Author:
Katchor, Ben
Publisher:
Pantheon
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Form - Cartoons & Comics
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject:
American wit and humor, pictorial
Subject:
Graphic Novels
Subject:
Graphic Novels - General
Subject:
Comics & Cartoons
Subject:
Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
no. 48
Publication Date:
20000613
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
B, &, W DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT
Pages:
112
Dimensions:
8.82x11.08x.59 in. 1.39 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center.<P>In "The Beauty Supply District", a new twenty-four-page story, Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms — from the shape of an olive jar to the score of a string quartet.
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