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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 written and drawn by Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor is an United States cartoonist. His comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility....
 since 1988. It is published in The Forward
The Forward

The Forward is a Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.As of 2008, the Forward is published as a weekly news magazine in separate Yiddish and English language editions....
 and various alternative weekly
Alternative weekly

An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columnists, Investigative journalism into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture....
 newspapers.

Katchor embodied his love of the fading small-business community of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in the title character, a downtrodden schlep who wanders the streets taking pictures and being sidetracked into surreal escapades. Strips often depict Knipl's chance encounters with obscure, marginal businesses (e.g.






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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 written and drawn by Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor is an United States cartoonist. His comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility....
 since 1988. It is published in The Forward
The Forward

The Forward is a Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.As of 2008, the Forward is published as a weekly news magazine in separate Yiddish and English language editions....
 and various alternative weekly
Alternative weekly

An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columnists, Investigative journalism into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture....
 newspapers.

Katchor embodied his love of the fading small-business community of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in the title character, a downtrodden schlep who wanders the streets taking pictures and being sidetracked into surreal escapades. Strips often depict Knipl's chance encounters with obscure, marginal businesses (e.g. a company that distributes newspaper weights to newsstands), eccentric hobbyists, and enigmatic details of the urban landscape. There is rarely continuity between the strips, and Knipl is the only recurring character.

A collection of Julius Knipl strips was published in 1991 by Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
 (as a RAW One-Shot) as Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay. Another collection was published in 1996 by Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is a Publishing established by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown . Since 2006 it has been a constituent unit of Hachette Livre....
 under the title Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories. Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an United States imprint with editorial independence that is part of the Knopf Publishing Group, which was acquired by Random House in 1960....
 published a third volume of strips, The Beauty Supply District, in 2000. Each book includes one long story in addition to the self-contained weekly strips. Translated collections of the strip in French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 and Japanese
Japanese language

IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
 have also been released.

NPR's Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition

Weekend Edition is the name given to a set of American radio news magazines produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It is the weekend counterpart to Morning Edition....
 Saturday ran audio versions of several Julius Knipl stories in 1995 and 1996, narrated by Ben Katchor and starring Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller

Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller is an United States of America Emmy Award-nominated comedian and actor.He spent many years in the comedy team Stiller and Meara with his wife Anne Meara....
 as Julius Knipl.

The word knipl means roughly "nest egg" in Yiddish.

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