Ben Katchor, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a cartoonist. Best known for his strip and radio drama series based on the character Julius Knipl, Katchor teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His works appear in the Forward and the New Yorker. Katchor has received the Isaac Bashevis Singer Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur fellowship.
For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
Hebrew manuscript illustration underwent a revival in eighteenth-century Germany and Central Europe. As wealthy Jews began to commission such manuscripts, a school of scribes and artists emerged. This…
Only three exits are becoming to every woman, big or small. The first is when she exits from the womb, dirtied, as if from a deep swamp. The second is when she exits from her woman’s tent and enters…