 Katchor won an Obie Award for his collaboration with Bang on a Can on "The Carbon Copy Building", a "comic book opera" based on his writings and drawings that premiered in 1999.The same year, he was the subject of "Pleasures of Urban Decay", a documentary by the San Francisco filmmaker Samuel Ball.The first cartoonist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Katchor has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.