{"product_id":"9781770462632","title":"Cheap Novelties : The Pleasures of Urban Decay by Ben Katchor","description":"Cheap 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.  In 1991,  the  original  Cheap  Novelties  appeared  in  an  unassuming  paperback  from  the  RAW contributor; it would become one of the first graphic novels of the contemporary graphic novel golden age and set the stage for Katchor as he is now regarded-a modern day cartooning genius.  Drawn and Quarterly's 25th anniversary edition will be a deluxe hardcover reformatted to Katchor's original vision and will feature a new cover.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302786380149,"sku":"9781770462632","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781770462632.jpg?v=1762793274","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781770462632","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}