Character Sketches in Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York

Yesterday I shared my copy of Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York (1998) signed by the artist with a small drawing of a folded ticket. It had been signed at the Alternative Press Expo in 2012 for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and I picked it up at this year's MoCCA Arts Festival in New York. Early in the evening, I received a note from reader and contributor David from Manhattan.

Seeing you're in a Ben K. frame of mind...

The 2000 is a first ed signed at the sorely missedN.Y. Book Fair on 5th Ave. The '99 is a 2nd printingfound on the often reliable Strand shelves years ago.Both are opposite the title page.

Drawing of Enoch Letushim inscribed
"To David,
from
Ben Katchor
9/29/00
NYC"
in Ben Katchor, The Jew of New York, 1998 first edition

 The character appears as a cut-out on the book's title page.

 

Enoch Letushim, second from right

http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/FastFetch/UBER1/ZI-2278-2007-FAL00-IDSI-145-1

Drawing of Mr. Marah signed
"Ben Katchor
2/29/99
The Strand"
in Ben Katchor, The Jew of New York, 1998, second printing

Cartoonist Ben Katchor and one his character's Mr. Marah, the importer of Jewish religious articles in NewYork City, 1825. BY ERIC LUSE/THE CHRONICLE

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Drawing-on-Heritage-Cartoonist-Ben-Katchor-2929815.php#photo-2254582

Mr. Marah

http://www.moorsmagazine.com/cartoons/katchorjewny/

Prior to yesterday, cartoonist Larry Rippee posted perhaps the only original sketch from this book to appear online. Like the ticket, it was drawn at the Alternative Press Expo 2012 in San Francisco and it again features the character Enoch Letushim.

Drawing of Enoch Letushim inscribed "To Larry, from Ben Katchor Oct 14, 2012 SF, APE"

http://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2012/11/larrys-cartoon-vault.html

Note:  Thanks yet again to David from Manhattan for sharing more gems from his collection. There are now more original sketches from Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York available online than ever before.

Original sketches by Ben Katchor that he made in this book or other books are not that rare, but they are seldom posted online. If you'd like to share yours here, just get in touch.

Attempted Bloggery's quick links:

Signed Books with Original Drawings

Ben Katchor

Attempted Bloggery's Hand-Drawn Index

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The Jew of New York Signed by Ben Katchor

At the MoCCA Arts Festival held in April of 2016, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) offered a copy of Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York (1999) signed by the artist with a rudimentary drawing of a folded canal boat ticket. The date and San Francisco location indicates the book was signed on the second day of the Alternative Press Expo in 2012. Has the CBLDF has been carrying it around to comics conventions for four years? I was happy to relieve them of this burden.

Ben Katchor, The Jew of New York, 1998, first paperback edition

Signed with a drawing of a folded canal boat ticket "Ben Katc[hor]/S.F./Oct 14, 2012"

Note:  This is Ben Katchor's first appearance on the blog.

Attempted Bloggery's quick links:

The MoCCA Arts Festival

Signed Books with Original Drawings

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Attempted Bloggery's Round-Trip Index

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Edward Koren's Eye Exam, Part 3

Contributor David from Manhattan has somehow unearthed yet a third book with an original drawing of an eye exam by cartoonist Edward Koren. Once again, it comes from the library of New York ophthalmologist David Pearce. The Hard Work of Simple Living was published in 1998 with the subtitle A Somewhat Blank Book for the Sustainable Hedonist. That serious word sustainable has found its way into the drawing of the eye chart. But mightn't the good doctor have preferred his drawing to have the more enjoyable word hedonist instead?

Edward Koren, drawing of an eye exam with the word sustainable on the eye chart
inscribed "For David" above the cat and "For my chum, David/Ed Koren/1998"
in a copy of The Hard Work of Simple Living:
A Somewhat Blank Book for the Sustainable Hedonist (1998)

Note:  Thanks once again to David from Manhattan for his continued efforts at finding books with original drawings by Edward Koren. I don't think Sherlock Holmes could have done better.


Quick links:

Edward Koren on this blog, including Parts 1 and 2 of the Eye Exam

More books with original drawings

Ink Spill's tribute last week to George Booth (which mentions this very blog)

Peter Arno posts from not too far back in this blog's history

Attempted Bloggery's index—the whole shebang

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