November 23, 2001 • Page Image 113
…TribeC a full service catering company. ings laden with anachronis- tic advertisements unmis- takably evoke the fading Yiddish-American world of his native New York. Nowhere is this more evident than in the names Katchor gives to charac- ters, places, and all things commercial. Striving for `the right combination of sense and nonsense," Katchor mixes judicious amounts of Yiddish and medical Latin to create The comic-strip and radio character...…

















































