1. Ben Katchor was born on November 19,1951 and is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.
12 Facts About Ben Katchor
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Ben Katchor has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States.
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Ben Katchor contributed occasional illustrations while on staff for The Kingsman, the student newspaper of Brooklyn College, and he was an early contributor to RAW.
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Ben Katchor edited and published two issues of Picture Story, which featured his own work, with articles and stories by Peter Blegvad, Jerry Moriarty, Mark Beyer and Martin Millard.
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In 1993, Ben Katchor was the subject of a lengthy profile by Lawrence Weschler in The New Yorker and an extended essay by John Crowley in The Yale Review.
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Ben Katchor's comics have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese.
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Ben Katchor wrote and illustrated a "weeklong electronic journal" for Slate in 1997, he contributed articles to the now-defunct Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, did illustrations for the New Yorker and occasionally The New York Times Book Review.
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Ben Katchor was the guest editor of the 2017 edition of Best American Comics.
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Ben Katchor has been an associate professor at Parsons The New School since 2007.
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Ben Katchor gives "illustrated lectures" at colleges and museums accompanied by slide projections of his work.
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Ben Katchor won an Obie Award for his collaboration with Bang on a Can on The Carbon Copy Building, a "comic book opera" based on his writings and drawings that premiered in 1999.
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The first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.