Bang on a Can

(words and drawings) has been an influential innovator in comics since he was a teenager. His comic strips have been syndicated all over the country, appearing in the Forward, Metropolis Magazine, and dozens of other newspapers across the United State, and have developed a devoted cult following. They include "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer," "The Cardboard Valise," and "The Jew of New York." He has received The Swann Foundation Award for Excellence in Cartoon, Caricature and Comic-Strip Art, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was recently awarded the MacArthur Fellowship for 2001. He was the subject of a profile by Lawrence Wechsler, entitled "A Wanderer in the Perfect City," which appeared in the August 1993 issue of The New Yorker and in 1994 was named "Best Cartoonist" by New York Magazine. In 1994, he collaborated with producer David Isay on a series of radio dramas for NPR based on Julius Knipl. Three collections of his strips have been published in recent years: Cheap Novelties, The Pleasures of Urban Decay (Penguin Books, 1991), Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories (Little, Brown and Co., 1996), and The Jew of New York (Little, Brown and Co., 1999).