Chronicling the Urban Landscape

A native New Yorker is fed up with life in the dregs of a drug-addled Alphabet City, where his neighbors are shut-ins and his bicycle is always getting stolen, in Dean Haspiel’s graphic novel, Beef with Tomato. The classic graphic novel Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, by the landmark cartoonist Ben Katchor, is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversary. Sequential Drawings gathers together more than a decade of Richard McGuire‘s “spot” drawings from the New Yorker: deceptively simple images that imbued the series with movement and narrative, telling their own unexpected stories. Moderated by George O’Connor.