Monarch’s Journey

Peter Kuper’s work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad, where he wrote and illustrated Spy vs. Spy for 26 years. In 1979, he cofounded World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine that is still published to this day. He has produced over two dozen books, including Sticks and Stones, The System, Diario de Oaxaca,Drawn to New York, adaptations of many of Franz Kafka’s works, including The Metamorphosis and the short story collection Kafkaesque, as well as Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. Translations of his work have appeared in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Slovenia, China, Brazil, Poland, Sweden, Israel, Turkey, Germany, and Mexico. Peter has lectured and exhibited his work extensively throughout the world and teaches Harvard University’s first ever class dedicated to graphic novels. In 2016, his graphic novel Ruins won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album. He was also the 2020-21 Jean Strouse Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, received a 2022 Yaddo residency, and won the 2024 RFK Cartoon Award. He is currently working on a graphic novel on the history of insects and the people who study them.