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Ben Katchor

American Cartoonist

Born: 1951

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Related authors: Bil Keane Bill Watterson Caroll Spinney Charles M. Schulz Gary Larson Matt Groening Scott Adams Walt Disney

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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