{"product_id":"cheap-novelties","title":"Cheap Novelties","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eFROM THE PUBLISHER:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Twenty-five years on, [Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographics are still fresh and relevant.\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. 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. In Katchor's signature pen and ink wash style, Cheap Novelties is a portrait of what we have lost to gentrification, globalization, and the malling of America that is as moving today as it was twenty-five years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1991, the original Cheap Novelties appeared in an unassuming paperback; it would become one of the first books of the contemporary graphic novel golden age, and it set the stage for Katchor to become regarded as a modern-day cartooning genius. Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly's twenty-fifth anniversary edition is a deluxe hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eREAD AN EXCERPT:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/heyzine.com\/flip-book\/72b98f6827.html\" style=\"border: 0px; width: 100%; height: 600px;\" class=\"fp-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45557244068098,"sku":"9781770462632","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/cheap-novelties-cover-3x2.jpg?v=1728864388","url":"https:\/\/stlartsupply.mom\/en-ca\/products\/cheap-novelties","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}