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...Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor (Pantheon; 2000) Although Katchor's long-form "Jew of New York" better qualifies as a graphic novel, I prefer his collected strips in the "Julius Knipl" series. Freshly released in paperback, this third volume contains more of Katchor's picture-poem odes to non-existent urban districts and fantastical people like the radiator musician...
...poetry or prose can shift the emphasis off certain words and onto others, exposing new meanings, comix' visual nature makes this much harder. The performance of comix must turn into more of a show. As a guide the producers and participants of "Comics Decode" should look to Ben Katchor...
...Katchor, author of "Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer," has been at the forefront of adapting comix to performance. His work was turned into short radio plays for National Public Radio and he created an original comix-style opera, "The Carbon Copy Building." But more relevant to "Comics Decode" are his slide shows. Never a straight reading, he frames his presentations in a loose lecture format with titles like, "Halftone Printing in the Yiddish Press and Other Objects of Idol Worship." But the lectures consist of the kind of vaguely-plausible-but-absurd nonsense that make up the majority of Katchor...
...Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District," by Ben Katchor This third collection of the weekly strip "Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer" provides us with the closest thing to comic book poetry around. Katchor has created a romantic urban world where a place like the beauty-supply district consists of businesses that provide detailed recommendations for the beautifying of a customer's proffered objects. Dreamy, sweet and melancholy, each Knipl strip reads like an ode to a lost world...
...Where to Get the Goods: "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," ($27.50) by Chris Ware; "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District" ($22) by Ben Katchor; and "David Boring" ($24.95) by Daniel Clowes are all hardbacks, published by Pantheon, and are available at regular bookstores and their Internet counterparts...
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