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After forty years of selling wholesale industrial deodorizing supplies, one establishment is forced to open its doors to the public.In the lingo of the trade, a salesman explains why their large insti...

Ben Katchor

After forty years of selling wholesale industrial deodorizing supplies, one establishment is forced to open its doors to the public.In the lingo of the trade, a salesman explains why their large insti...

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Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

Ben Katchor

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

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About Author
Ben Katchor (born November 19, 1951) is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

Ben Katchor

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

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I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Ben Katchor

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

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What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécour...

Ben Katchor

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécour...

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You see these unsold goods taking up space in busy stores and ask yourself, 'Who would ever buy such a thing? To whose antiquated and misguided sense of taste would such a thing appeal?' To the dead,...

Ben Katchor

You see these unsold goods taking up space in busy stores and ask yourself, 'Who would ever buy such a thing? To whose antiquated and misguided sense of taste would such a thing appeal?' To the dead,...