“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.” KnowsWorldBookKidsKnow HowObjectsFitStoresNewspapersComicDepartmentUnusualBookstoresDepartment Stores Author:Ben Katchor
“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.” PeopleWorldLongAmericaGoneColorPaperTraditionSellsNewspapersComicBudgetsAdsPapersComic Strips Author:Ben Katchor
