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Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Female
Goats
Mood
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I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Born
Call Me
Cougars
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I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
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Sound
Western
Western Music
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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Clock
Strange
Watches
Clocks
Depend
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Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.
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Fall
Interesting
Levels
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I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Building
Oblivious
Old Buildings
Buildings
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The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Nothing New
Publishing
Cheaply
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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 / Cartoonist
Religious
Spiritual
Years
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A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Running
Movement
Stories
Frames
Per
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I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Appreciation
Smile
War
People
Thinking
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The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Technology
Light
Rooms
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I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Jewish History
Temples
Thinking
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I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Apartment
Building
Feels
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Comic
Newspapers
Papers
Comic Strip
Sell
Long Tradition
Strip
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Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Responses
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You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Good Luck
Knowing
Needs
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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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Kids
Book
Bookstores
Comic
Unusual
World
World Me Know
Edward
Newspaper
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You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Batteries
Doubt
Dying
People
Watches
Always Your People
Clocks
Doubting
People Always Your
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I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Cheese
Ink
Paper
Smell
Soviet
Soviet Union
Alien
Exhibit
Union
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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Following
Directions
Discourage
Participatory
Reveals
Strips
Weekly
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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 Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?
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Opportunity
Eye
Ghetto
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. It's worked, up until now. Now these papers can't afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
America
Color
Long
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A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Running
Stories
Thinking
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The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.
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Book
Europe
Funny Things
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Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques. How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn't even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it's how we're living. It's this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It's a great time.
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Past
Thinking
Together
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The basis of national identity is to say, "This is authentic to me or my forebears," and is there even such a thing? How authentic is it to your life? Just because your grandfather did it, what does that have to do with you? If I say I'm working in the style of Rembrandt, so what? You can say it, but are you really? No, because when you try to literally copy a cultural artifact, you change it. It dissolves, and then who's looking at it? People who appreciate that kind of drawing, or people it means nothing to?
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Drawing
Mean
People
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There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.
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Europe
Real
Thinking
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I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a Jew, I don't know, it doesn't mean anything to me. You really should start augmenting these words, saying what kind. If you want to say somebody is a Jew, what do you mean by that? Does he have blonde hair? I think a lot of these ancient nationalistic and ethnic terms have kind of lost their meaning, or their meaning is so broad, it's nothing. It's like he's connected to the ancient world. Everybody is.
Ben Katchor / Cartoonist
Hair
Mean
Thinking
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