CHEAP NOVELTIES PLEASURES OF URBAN DECAY HC (C: 0-0-1) DAN CLOWES and often contradictory

and often contradictory

the mayor’s nightmare takes a turn for the worse

that magic is fickle

reigns supreme

Abe and Simon Matchcard are brothers

CHEAP NOVELTIES PLEASURES OF URBAN DECAY HC (C: 0-0-1) DAN CLOWES and often contradictoryCheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban character. Rumpled, middle aged, Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing city, an urban landscape of low rent apartment buildings, obsolete industries, monuments to forgotten people and events, and countless sources of inexpensive food. Now presented as a deluxe anniversary edition, Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have