Quotes by Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor

American cartoonist and illustrator

Lived from: 1951 -

Category: Artists

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  • A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
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  • 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.
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  • I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
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  • 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.
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  • Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
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  • There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
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  • You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ben Katchor?

The two most famous quotes from Ben Katchor are:

  • "A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement."
  • "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."

When did Ben Katchor live?

Ben Katchor is still alive and was born in 1951.