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Ben Katchor (Benjamin Katchor) was born on 19 November, 1951 in New York City, U.S., is an American cartoonist and illustrator (born 1951). Discover Ben Katchor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 19 November, 1951
Birthday 19 November
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1951

Ben Katchor (born November 19, 1951) is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States.

A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."

Katchor contributed occasional illustrations while on staff for The Kingsman, the student newspaper of Brooklyn College, and he was an early contributor to RAW.

He 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.

1970

Katchor has written several works of musical theater, including The Rosenbach Company (a tragi-comedy about the life and times of Abe Rosenbach, the preeminent rare-book dealer of the 20th century); The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower, an absurdist romance about the chemical emissions and addictive soft-drinks of a ruined tropical factory-island; A Checkroom Romance, about the culture and architecture of coat-checkrooms, and Up From the Stacks, about a page working the stacks of the New York Public Library c.1970.

All feature music by Mark Mulcahy.

1993

In 1993, 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 (1998).

His comics have been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese.

1997

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.

1999

In 1999, he collaborated with Bang on a Can on an opera entitled, The Carbon Copy Building.

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.

The same year, he was the subject of Pleasures of Urban Decay, a documentary by the San Francisco filmmaker Samuel Ball.

The first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Katchor has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

2007

Katchor has been an associate professor at Parsons The New School since 2007.

He gives "illustrated lectures" at colleges and museums accompanied by slide projections of his work.

2012

Since 2012 he has run the New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium, a weekly symposium for the study of text-image work.

2017

Katchor was the guest editor of the 2017 edition of Best American Comics.