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Peter A. Kuper
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Peter Kuper's illustrations and comics appear regularly in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY every month.
He has written and illustrated many books including Comics Trips, a journal of an eight-month trip through Africa and Southeast Asia.
Other works include Stripped - An Unauthorized Autobiography, Mind's Eye, The System, a wordless graphic novel and adaptations of numerous short stories of Franz Kafka collected in Give It Up!. All of these are sampled in Speechless, a coffee table art book covering his career up to 2000.
His most recent books are adaptions of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Sticks and Stones, a wordless graphic novel about the rise and fall of empires, which was awarded the gold medal in the sequential arts category in the 2004 Society of Illustrators competition.
In 1979 he co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated and remains on its editorial board to this day. Since 1986 he has taught courses in comics and illustration at the School of Visual Arts and currently at Parsons in New York City and is also an art director of INX, a political illustration group syndicated through the web at inxart.com.
Peter Kuper lives in Manhattan with his wife Betty Russell, and their daughter Emily.
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Website: http://www.peterkuper.com/
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Awards:- 1996 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition: (for Kafka: Give it Up!; Stripped; and others [Fantagraphics and others])

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9-11: Emergency Relief (2002)
Army @ Love (2007)
The Best American Comics (2006)
Bleeding Heart (1991)
Captain America: Red, White & Blue (2002)
Classics Illustrated (1990)
#27 - 'Upton Sinclair: The Jungle' Classics Illustrated (2007)
The Comics Journal (1977)
ComicsLit Magazine (1995)
ComicsTrips: The Peter Kuper Sketchbook (1992)
Crazy Magazine (1973)
Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings (2002)
Desista! e outras histórias de Franz Kafka (2008)
TPB - 'Desista! e outras histórias de Franz Kafka' Different Beat Comics (1994)
Epic Illustrated (1980)
Fly In My Eye (1988)
Gangland (1998)
Give It Up! and Other Short Stories (1995)
HC - 'Give It Up! and Other Short Stories' Heavy Metal (1977)
Il sistema (1999)
Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture (2012)
HC - 'Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture' The Jungle (2004)
Last Gasp Comics and Stories (1995)
MAD (1952)
#373#376#377 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 1998' #384#394#397#401 - 'The 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2000' #402#405#407#408#409#411#417#419#421#422#423#425 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2002' #426#427#430#433#438#439#440#441#442#444#445#448#454#455#456#457#459#463#464#465#466#467#468#469#470#471#472#473 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2006' #474#475#476#477#478#479#480#481#482#483#484#485 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2007 ' #486#487#488#489#490#491#492#493#494#495#496#497 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2008' #498#499#500#501#502#503#504#505#506#507#508#509#510#511#512#513 - 'The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things 2011' #514#515#516#517#518#519 - 'The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things 2012' #520#521 MAD Classics (2005)
MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy (2011)
A Metamorfose (2004)
The Metamorphosis (2003)
The New Comics Anthology (1991)
TPB - 'The New Comics Anthology' RagTag (2003)
Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson (2000)
Speechless (2001)
Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files (2007)
Spy vs. Spy Omnibus (2011)
Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook (2001)
Sticks and Stones (2004)
Stripped (1995)
The System (1996)
Topsy Turvy (2000)
Treehouse of Horror (1995)
Weird War Tales (1997)
Wild Life (1994)
World War 3 Illustrated (1980)
#9 - 'The Buck Stops' #10 - 'Fascism Issue' #12 - 'Ecology Health Crisis' #13#14 - 'New World Empire' #32#33 - 'The Situation' #41 - 'The Food Chain' Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land (2011)
OGN HC - 'Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & The New Land'
Penciller:
9-11 (2002)
9-11: Emergency Relief (2002)
Aesop's Fables (1991)
Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman (2003)
The Beats: A Graphic History (2009)
OGN HC - 'The Beats: A Graphic History' OGN SC - 'The Beats - A Graphic History' The Beats: Die Geschichte der Beat-Literatur (2010)
OGN HC - 'The Beats: Die Geschichte der Beat-Literatur' The Best American Comics (2006)
Big Book of... (1994)
Blab! (1986)
Bleeding Heart (1991)
Bob Marley, Tale of the Tuff Gong (1994)
Born to be Wild (1991)
Captain America: Red, White & Blue (2002)
Classics Illustrated (1990)
#27 - 'Upton Sinclair: The Jungle' Classics Illustrated (2007)
The Comics Journal (1977)
ComicsLit Magazine (1995)
ComicsTrips: The Peter Kuper Sketchbook (1992)
Crazy Magazine (1973)
Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings (2002)
Desista! e outras histórias de Franz Kafka (2008)
TPB - 'Desista! e outras histórias de Franz Kafka' Different Beat Comics (1994)
Doris Danger Seeks Where Urban Creatures Creep and Stomp! (2007)
Duplex Planet Illustrated (1993)
Eclipse (1981)
The Endless Gallery (1995)
#1 - 'The Endless Gallery' Epic Illustrated (1980)
Fly In My Eye (1988)
Gangland (1998)
Give It Up! and Other Short Stories (1995)
HC - 'Give It Up! and Other Short Stories' The Graphic Canon (2012)
OGN SC vol. 02 - 'Volume 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray' Heavy Metal (1977)
#29 - 'Vol.3 No.4' #77 - 'Vol.7 No.5' Il sistema (1999)
Itchy Planet (1988)
The Jungle (2004)
Last Gasp Comics and Stories (1995)
MAD (1952)
#356#372#373#376#377 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 1998' #380#384#390#392#394#396#397#398#399#400#401 - 'The 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2000' #402#404#405#407#408#409#411#417#418#419#421#422#423#425 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2002' #426#427#430#433#438#439#440#441#442#444#445#448#454#455#456#457#459#463#464#465#466#467#468#469#470#471#472#473 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2006' #474#475#476#477#478#479#480#481#482#483#484#485 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2007 ' #486#487#488#489#490#491#492#493#494#495#496#497 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2008' #498#499#500#501#502#503#504#505#506#507#508#509#510#511#513 - 'The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things 2011' #514#515#516#517#518#519 - 'The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things 2012' #520#521 MAD Art (2002)
MAD Classics (2005)
MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy (2011)
Madman 20th Anniversary Monster! (2011)
OGN HC - 'Madman 20th Anniversary Monster!' Madman Comics (1994)
#19 - 'The G-Men From Hell. Part 3' Madman Picture Exhibition (2002)
A Metamorfose (2004)
The Metamorphosis (2003)
The New Comics Anthology (1991)
TPB - 'The New Comics Anthology' RagTag (2003)
Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson (2000)
Speechless (2001)
Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files (2007)
Spy vs. Spy Omnibus (2011)
Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook (2001)
The Staros Report (1994)
Sticks and Stones (2004)
Stripped (1995)
The System (1996)
Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (2002)
Topsy Turvy (2000)
Treehouse of Horror (1995)
The Vertigo Gallery: Dreams and Nightmares (1995)
#1 - 'Dreams & Nightmares' Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics (2000)
HC - 'Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics' Vital Vertigo (1998)
Weird (1997)
Weird War Tales (1997)
Wild Life (1994)
World War 3 Illustrated (1980)
#32#33 - 'The Situation' #41 - 'The Food Chain' Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land (2011)
OGN HC - 'Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & The New Land'
Inker:
9-11 (2002)
9-11: Emergency Relief (2002)
Aesop's Fables (1991)
The Beats: A Graphic History (2009)
OGN HC - 'The Beats: A Graphic History' The Beats: Die Geschichte der Beat-Literatur (2010)
OGN HC - 'The Beats: Die Geschichte der Beat-Literatur' Big Book of... (1994)
Bleeding Heart (1991)
Captain America: Red, White & Blue (2002)
Classics Illustrated (1990)
#27 - 'Upton Sinclair: The Jungle' Classics Illustrated (2007)
The Comics Journal (1977)
ComicsLit Magazine (1995)
ComicsTrips: The Peter Kuper Sketchbook (1992)
Crazy Magazine (1973)
Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings (2002)
Desista! e outras histórias de Franz Kafka (2008)
TPB - 'Desista! e outras histórias de Franz Kafka' Duplex Planet Illustrated (1993)
Eclipse (1981)
The Endless Gallery (1995)
#1 - 'The Endless Gallery' Epic Illustrated (1980)
Fly In My Eye (1988)
Gangland (1998)
Give It Up! and Other Short Stories (1995)
HC - 'Give It Up! and Other Short Stories' Heavy Metal (1977)
#29 - 'Vol.3 No.4' #77 - 'Vol.7 No.5' Itchy Planet (1988)
The Jungle (2004)
Last Gasp Comics and Stories (1995)
MAD (1952)
#356#372#373#376#377 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 1998' #380#384#390#392#394#396#397#398#399#400#401 - 'The 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2000' #402#404#405#407#408#409#411#417#418#419#421#422#423#425 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2002' #426#427#430#433#438#439#440#441#442#444#445#448#454#455#459#463#464#465#466#467#468#469#470#471#472#473 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2006' #474#475#476#477#478#479#480#481#482#483#484#485 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2007 ' #486#487#488#489#490#491#492#493#494#495#496#497 - 'The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2008' #498#499#500#501#502#503#504#505#506#507#508#509#510#511#512#513 - 'The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things 2011' #514#515#516#517#518#519 - 'The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things 2012' #520#521 MAD Classics (2005)
MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy (2011)
Madman Comics (1994)
#19 - 'The G-Men From Hell. Part 3' Madman Picture Exhibition (2002)
A Metamorfose (2004)
The Metamorphosis (2003)
The New Comics Anthology (1991)
TPB - 'The New Comics Anthology' Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson (2000)
Speechless (2001)
Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files (2007)
Spy vs. Spy Omnibus (2011)
Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook (2001)
Sticks and Stones (2004)
The System (1996)
Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (2002)
Topsy Turvy (2000)
Treehouse of Horror (1995)
The Vertigo Gallery: Dreams and Nightmares (1995)
#1 - 'Dreams & Nightmares' Weird (1997)
Weird War Tales (1997)
Wild Life (1994)
World War 3 Illustrated (1980)
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land (2011)
OGN HC - 'Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & The New Land'
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