Go, Read: Ben Katchor Recommends Five Books At The Browser

I believe absolute proof that we're in a very good time for comics exists in the fact that the great Ben Katchor came out with a book this year -- his first in a decade! -- and I have to be occasionally reminded of this. Katchor is also one of two The Comics Journal interviews that got away when I was working at the magazine back in the late 1990s. There is no more consistently smart and compelling cartoonist or talker about his and others' cartooning out there, and it's nice to be reminded of that at any and every opportunity. In this interview at The Browser, Katchor recommends five picture books (his preferred term for comics). They are unsurprisingly intriguing choices, and the discussion goes in some interesting directions about the difficulty and rewards of reading comics, particularly complex ones. If you have a coffee break or something similar this morning, this one would be a good piece to leave open on your browser until then.
 
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