Artist Ben Katchor has been creating a comic strip for Metropolis since the 1980s, taking on issues from urban development to environmentalism in a style one editor describes as "wry" with a "Jiminy Cricket" feel. Curbed National profiles Katchor and his beloved comic characters, including Julius Knipl, real estate photographer. Click through for a look at a few of Katchor's strips. [Curbed National]
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