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Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay Les Overlord “Flung Out of Space” givesBy Ben Katchor. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Hardcover, 112 pages, B&W, 2016 (originally published 1988 1991) "Twenty five years on, [Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographics are still fresh and relevant."The Guardian Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled,