Peter Kuper

<p><br />Peter Kuper (b. 1958) is one of the country's leading cartoonists. His artwork has graced the pages and covers of numerous newspapers and magazines including <em>Time</em> the <em>New Yorker</em> <em>Mother Jones</em> and the <em>New York Times</em>. He is a longtime contributor to <em>Mad</em> magazine where he has been writing and drawing <em>Spy vs. Spy</em> for two decades and the cofounder and coeditor of <em>World War 3 Illustrated</em> the cutting-edge magazine devoted to political graphic art.<br /><br />Most of the interviews collected here are either previously unpublished or long out of print. They address such varied topics as world travels teaching at Harvard Hollywood deal-making climate change <em>Spy vs. Spy</em> New York City in the 1970s and 1980s and <em>World War 3 Illustrated</em>. Among the works examined are his books <em>The System</em> <em>Sticks and Stones</em> <em>Stop Forgetting to Remember</em> <em>Diario de Oaxaca</em> and adaptations of Franz Kafka's <em>The Metamorphosis</em> and Upton Sinclair's <em>The Jungle</em>. Kuper also discusses his graphic novel <em>Ruins</em> which received the Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel in 2016.<br /><br />Along with two dozen images this volume features ten lively informative interviews as well as a quartet of revealing conversations conducted in collaboration with Kuper's fellow artist Seth Tobocman with underground comix legends Robert Crumb and Vaughn Bodé Mad magazine publisher William Gaines and Jack Kirby.</p>