Ben KatchorBA, Art, Brooklyn College
Associate Professor, Illustration, Parsons The New School for Design
Media Contact Information:Areas of Expertise:Comic strips, graphic novels, illustration
Profile:Ben Katchor is an award-winning cartoonist who has taught and lectured extensively throughout the United States and Europe. His picture stories—including Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, The Jew of New York, The Cardboard Valise, Hotel & Farm, and Shoehorn Technique—have run in newspapers and magazines since 1986. Mr. Katchor’s comic strips have appeared in The Forward, Metropolis magazine, and the New Yorker. Katchor’s awards include a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1995) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2000). In 2002, he was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin, and in 2007, he was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. Mr. Katchor wrote libretti and designed scenic projections for three musical theater productions, The Carbon Copy Building, The Rosenbach Company, and The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island.
Courses Taught:Visual Narrative
Picture Story Workshop
Jazz and Animation Collaborative
Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
The Jew of New York
The Beauty Supply District
