
TED Talks
Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York
TV-PG
2009 • E73 Apr 23, 2009 13mIn this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hopes and foibles of history (and modern New York) preserved in objects like light switches and signs.