{"product_id":"peter-kuper-1","title":"Peter Kuper","description":"Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, where he has been writing and drawing \u003ci\u003eSpy vs. Spy\u003c\/i\u003e for nearly two decades. He is the cofounder and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWorld War 3 Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, the cutting-edge magazine devoted to political graphic art. Along with two dozen images, this volume features ten lively, informative interviews with Kuper. The book also includes a quartet of revealing interviews with underground comix legends R. Crumb and Vaughn Bodé, \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e magazine publisher William Gaines, and Jack Kirby, co-creator of mainstream superheroes from the Avengers to the Fantastic Four. These were conducted by Kuper and fellow artist Seth Tobocman in the early 1970s, when they were teenagers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKuper's graphic novels have explored the medium from comics journalism and autobiography to fiction and literary adaptation. Most of the interviews collected in this book are either previously unpublished or long out of print, and they address such varied topics as the nuts and bolts of creating graphic novels, world travels, teaching at Harvard University, Hollywood deal-making, climate change, \u003ci\u003eSpy vs. Spy\u003c\/i\u003e, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and \u003ci\u003eWorld War 3 Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e. Among the works examined herein are his books \u003ci\u003eThe System\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSticks and Stones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStop Forgetting to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiario de Oaxaca\u003c\/i\u003e, and adaptations of Franz Kafka's \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e and Upton Sinclair's \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e. Kuper also discusses his recently published opus, the 328-page \u003ci\u003eRuins\u003c\/i\u003e, inspired by his experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico. This book is the 2016 Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Album.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57526156263768,"sku":"9781496818454","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781496818454.jpg?v=1781676952","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/peter-kuper-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}