American alternative comics artist and illustrator
Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper in 2014
Born
(1958-09-22) September 22, 1958 (age 65) Summit, New Jersey
Nationality
American
Area(s)
Artist, writer
Notable works
World War 3 Illustrated Spy vs. Spy The System Give It Up! The Metamorphosis
Awards
Society of Illustrators gold medal, 2004, silver medal 2009, gold medal 2010
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Peter Kuper (/ˈkuːpər/;[1] born September 22, 1958) is an American alternative comics artist and illustrator, best known for his autobiographical, political, and social observations.
Besides his contributions to the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, which he co-founded[2] in 1979 with Seth Tobocman, Kuper is currently best known for taking over Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine. Kuper has produced numerous graphic novels which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Slovenian and Greek, including award-winning adaptations of Franz Kafka's Give It Up! and the Metamorphosis.
^"Interview with Peter Kuper - The Comics Alternative"
^Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 321
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with additional art by Jay Kinney, Nick Thorkelson, Summer McClinton, PeterKuper, Mary Fleener, Gary Dumm, Lance Tooks, Jeffrey Lewis, and others. Edited...
#1–3 (May–July 1996) by PeterKuper, dealt wordlessly with "class warfare in the big city". Girl #1–3 (July–September 1996) by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo...
non-genre comics—"graphic novels". Cartoonists such as Eric Drooker and PeterKuper took direct inspiration from wordless novels to create wordless graphic...
studio members at any one time). In addition, future comics professionals PeterKuper and Dean Haspiel worked as assistants at Upstart before they began doing...
with additional art by Jay Kinney, Nick Thorkelson, Summer McClinton, PeterKuper, Mary Fleener, Gary Dumm, Lance Tooks, Jeffrey Lewis, Jerome Neukirch...
doing so" (1993:17). A comics adaptation of the story, illustrated by PeterKuper, is included in Give It Up!. Introducing Kafka, a graphic novel written...
Stones by PeterKuper. Sticky by Dale Lazarov and Steve MacIsaac. The Strange World of Mr. Mum by Irving Phillips. The System by PeterKuper. Tall Tales...
Drooker Joyce Farmer Tsuneo Gōda Paul Guinan John Higgins Jamal Igle PeterKuper Richard A. Lupoff Pat Lupoff Steve Sansweet Bill Schelly Steven Spielberg...
Ney Rieber and Gary Amaro "The Virgin" in Wild Life #1 (Fantagraphics) PeterKuper "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" in Negative Burn #11 (Caliber Press)...
(Black Dahlia) 2017 Emil Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters) 2018 PeterKuper (Kafkaesque) 2019 Harmony Becker (They Called Us Enemy) 2020 Jared Cullum...
14–16, 2008. Archived from the original on September 30, 2008. Sanderson, Peter. "Comics in Context #123: NY Comic-Con 2006: Birth pangs of a new convention...
Creative team Artist(s) Kyle Baker, Pat Boyette, Rick Geary, Gary Gianni, PeterKuper, Tom Mandrake, Dean Motter, Mike Ploog, P. Craig Russell, Bill Sienkiewicz...
Lauren Redniss, James Romberger, Charlotte Shulz, Michael Kalil, and PeterKuper. Many of whom have been a recipient of MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowships...
number of his cartoonist associates, including Joe Sacco, PeterKuper, Ben Katchor, Peter Bagge, Charles Burns, Kaz, Kim Deitch, and Jay Lynch. The magazine...
Another silent story, with art by PeterKuper (appeared in issue #10) A collaboration between Alan Moore and Peter Bagge, which recasts the Strong family...
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