Ben Katchor: Jewish Museum. (New York).(Brief Article)

As Ben Katchor is the first to admit, there's something counterintuitive, even perverse about a museum exhibition devoted to cartoon strips. Most of what was on view in this show--highlights from twenty years of deadline-sponsored creativity--is readily available, and more comfortable to peruse, in book form.

So maybe the point was to encourage viewers to scrutinize the subtleties in the original drawings--to savor, for instance, careful archipelagoes of Wite-Out, lost in reproduction and now lustrously visible? Devoted Katchor fans could spend hours indulging in this kind of ...

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