Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer

8 best books like Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (Ben Katchor): Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Asterios Polyp, Wilson, Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment, H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction, Patience, The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come, Small in the City

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

Author	Chris Ware
ISBN	0224063979

Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.

It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...

Asterios Polyp

Author	David Mazzucchelli
ISBN	0307377326

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect...

Wilson

Author	Daniel Clowes
ISBN	1770460071

AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series...

Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment

Author	Parker Curry
ISBN	1534451862

A New York Times bestseller!

A visit to Washington, DC’s National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry’s young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait.

When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald’s transcendent portrait of First Lady...

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

Author	H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN	1435122968

Here is the complete collection of fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

The Stories included are:

The Nameless City
The Festival
The Colour Out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Haunter...

Patience

Author	Daniel Clowes
ISBN	1606999052

Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian” and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel...

The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

Author	Sue Macy
ISBN	1481472208

“Stunning.”​ —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Inspired...[a] journalistic, propulsive narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art.” —Booklist (starred review)

From New York Times...

Small in the City

Author	Sydney Smith
ISBN	0823442616

It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.

When you're small in the city, people don't see you, and loud sounds can scare you, and knowing what to do is sometimes hard. But this little kid knows what it's like, and knows...