LINES ON PAPER Artist Bio - Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper's work has appeared in, among others, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Village Voice, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY. His Eye of the Beholder was the first comic strip to regularly appear in The New York Times and is now syndicated nationally to alternative papers. He also produces a weekly political comic strip for the Sunday opinion section of the New York Daily News. Rolling Stone named him Comic Book Artist of the Year in 1995 and he has won awards from American Illustration, Print, Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts, among others. His comics have been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and Greek and his artwork has been exhibited around the world. He has written and illustrated many books, including ComicsTrips, a journal of the artist's eight month journey through Africa and Southeast Asia. An inveterate traveler, he has also made lengthy stays in Europe, Central America, the Mideast, Mexico, New Guinea, and Cleveland. Other works include Stripped - An Unauthorized Autobiography, and The System, a wordless graphic novel. He has also done adaptations of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle,and GIVE IT UP!, adapting nine Franz Kafka short stories. His most recent books include Topsy Turvy, a collection of his political comic strips Mind's Eye, an Eye of the Beholder collection and SPEECHLESS a coffee table art book covering his career to date which will be published this winter. In 1979, Kuper co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated with Seth Tobocman and remains on its editorial board to this day. He taught a course on alternative comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York for nine years and is also an art director of INX, a political illustration group syndicated by United Feature. Peter Kuper lives in Manhattan with his wife Betty Russell, and their daughter Emily. <-- Back to Artist's Card