The Cardboard Valise
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The Cardboard Valise by Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (The creator of the last great American comic strip.--Michael Chabon) gives us his first book in more than ten years: the story of the fantastical nation of Outer Canthus and the three people who, in some way or another, inhabit its shores.Emile Delilah is a young xenophile (lover of foreign nations) so addicted to traveling to the exotic regions of Outer Canthus that the government pays him a monthly stipend just so he can continue his visits. Living in the same tenement as Emile are Boreal Rince, the exiled king of Outer Canthus, and Elijah Salamis, a supranationalist determined to erase the cultural and geographic boundaries that separate the citizens of the Earth. Although they rarely meet, their lives intertwine through the elaborate fictions they construct and inhabit: a vast panorama of humane hamburger stands, exquisitely ethereal ethnic restaurants, ancient restroom ruins, and wild tracts of land that fit neatly next to high-rise hotels. The Cardboard Valise is a graphic novel as travelogue; a canvas of semi-surrealism; and a poetic, whimsical, beguiling work of Ben Katchor's dazzling imagination.
Hand-Drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Cardboard Valise are all cartoons by Ben Katchor. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and he received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Katchor has worked on comics for publications such as The Forward, Metropolis, and The New Yorker. Katchor is the first cartoonist to have won an Obie Award, and he has collaborated on musical theatrical pieces with composer Mark Mulcahy. His TED Talk is titled Comics of Bygone New York. Katchor works as an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375421143 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375421149 |
| Title | The Cardboard Valise |
| Author | Ben Katchor |
| Series | Pantheon Graphic Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2011-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |