Ben Katchor in downtown Albany this Sunday

MacArthur Award-winning cartoonist Ben Katchor will give a free slideshow presentation at the Albany Institute of History and Art this weekend (Sunday at 2PM).

Katchor's newest collection, The Cardboard Valise, was published last month (the book comes in rather unusual cardboard valise-shaped package).

Adam Sternbergh of the New York Times said: "[T]he appearance of a new Katchor collection is always reason to celebrate, so let’s start celebrating.... Katchor is a true, rare, untarnished New York treasure — the kind of artist who can concoct a fantastical made-up world, but one that ensures you’ll never see the real world in quite the same way again." More.