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
Time, the
New Yorker,
Mother Jones, and the
New York Times. He is a longtime contributor to
Mad magazine, where he has been writing and drawing
Spy vs. Spy for two decades, and the cofounder and coeditor of
World War 3 Illustrated, the cutting-edge magazine devoted to political graphic art.
Most of the interviews collected here are either previously unpublished or long out of print.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,
Spy vs. Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, and
World War 3 Illustrated. Among the works examined are his books
The System,
Sticks and Stones,
Stop Forgetting to Remember,
Diario de Oaxaca, and adaptations of Franz Kafka’s
The Metamorphosis and Upton Sinclair’s
The Jungle. Kuper also discusses his graphic novel
Ruins, which received the Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel in 2016.
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.
About the author
Kent Worcester is professor of political science at Marymount Manhattan College. His books include Peter Kuper: Conversations, Peter Bagge: Conversations, The Superhero Reader (coedited with Charles Hatfield and Jeet Heer), A Comics Studies Reader (coedited with Jeet Heer), and Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (coedited with Jeet Heer), all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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