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Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Anything Art Just Know Make Mean People Responses Sometimes Strong Things Those Use Very Whether Why Words

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I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: About Alien Cheese Child Could Country Different Every Exhibit Feel Going Had Ink Like Paper Piece Remember Smell Soviet Soviet Union Touch Union Were You I Remember

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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: America Color Comic Comic Strip Comics Long Long Tradition Newspapers Over Papers Put Sell Strip Tradition True Very Which World

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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Across Books Bookstores Came Comic Comics Early Edward Fit How Kid Know Like Me Newspaper Objects Really Small Things Unusual Were World I Came

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I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: About Always Before Buildings Here Lived Oblivious Old Thought Who You

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A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Deal Film Frames Illusion Just Like Movement Per Picture Run Second Story

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I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Apartment Been Building Built Connected Feel Live Much Place Time Very I Feel

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I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Come Interested Music Sounds Very Western Where

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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Always Clocks Depend Never Public Stores Strange Watch Wore

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You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Always Batteries Clocks Doubt Doubting Dying Had Just Know Like Own People Public Trouble Watch Watches Why Would You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: Unknown

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