![](https://www.hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/statutesdetail-200x200.jpg)
Author: Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor’s comic-strips have been collected in a number of books: Cheap Novelties, The Pleasures of Urban Decay; Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories; The Cardboard Valise; The Jew of New York and Hand-Drying in America and other stories. He's collaborated with composer Mark Mulcahy on six music-theater shows, most recently The Imaginary War Crimes Tribunal (2014). He was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. He is an Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design — The New School in New York City where he teaches in the Illustration program.
![](https://www.hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/statutesdetail-200x200.jpg)
![](https://www.hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-07-23-at-9.04.10-AM-200x200.jpg)