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- Oct 31, 2018
- 3 min
Horrors! The Life and Death of Matt Groening’s Best Simpsons Comic Book
Don’t have a cow, man, but Bongo, the Eisner Award-winning publisher of Simpsons comic books for nearly a quarter-century, died this month. Yes, the Matt Groening line – the one that once brought you Sergio Aragonés’s Funnies and a Zongo imprint that put out Gary Panter’s Jimbo and Mary Fleener’s Fleener – has ceased publication. And if you’re a designer whose first and foremost priority for comics is their visual appeal, you might give your shoulders a simple “whatever” shru
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- Oct 3, 2018
- 4 min
Kafka Bound
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories by Peter Kuper illustrating K’s best known short stories in comics, is fitting for today’s Kafkaesque scenarios with all its comedies and tragedies. I asked him what he and Franz have in common and also what is personal to him about a few of these stories. Apparently, Kuper likes beer. You obviously have an affinity with Franz Kafka and say in your introduction to Kafkaesque how his work is ideal for comics. Why?
My first encounter with Kafka was
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- Sep 11, 2018
- 3 min
Tunnel Visions: Comics Track the Evolution of NYC Subways
By: Michael Dooley Never mind that comics were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in 1951, then at the Whitney in 1983 and MOMA in 1990. That’s all so 20th century. Finally, comics have arrived at the city’s coolest venue of all: the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn! Amelia Opdyke Jones: Quarantine the Gumbug!, 1948, and Keep Your Feet Off The Seat!, 1949. New York Transit Museum, William J. Jones Collection. Gift of William J. Jones and Margaritta J. Friday In
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- Mar 8, 2018
- 4 min
Chris Ware’s Newest Book is the Smartest Monograph on Earth
Enter PRINT’s Regional Design Awards for your chance to see your work in an all-new book by PRINT, and to win a Big Ticket to HOW Design Live, a main-stage trophy presentation and other exclusive opportunities on-site, including a lunch date with a HOW Design Live speaker and an invitation to the official Speaker Reception with industry movers and shakers at HOW Design Live. Chris Ware’s Building Stories was one of the best books of 2012. And that’s not just me talking. That’
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- Oct 1, 2015
- 3 min
The Monarch and the Graphic Novelist
Peter Kuper’s new book, RUINS, is a visual experience that follows a couple through Mexico on the path of a monarch butterfly. Kuper has called this his “[Mexican] kitchen sink, pretty much everything I could throw into the book based on living in Oaxaca, Mexico, from 2006–2008.” The variety of people that he encountered, the teachers strike that was going on during that time, the monarch butterflies he raised with his daughter and the butterfly sanctuary his family visited …
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- Sep 8, 2014
- 4 min
Two New Cartoon Histories on 100 Old Comics Innovators
Art Spiegelman and other comics artists have illustrated biographies of cartoonists, but always as short one-shot strips. Now, not one but two entire books of this kind have just been released. Together they offer 100 visual takes on significant, and even revolutionary, pioneers in the field. One is an anthology edited by designer/art director Monte Beauchamp, with whom I Blab!-bed in an Imprint feature a while back. The second is by famed comics illustrator Drew Friedman, wh
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- Aug 26, 2014
- 9 min
A Designers’ Guide to Comic-Con’s Hidden Pleasures
We’re now at the peak of comic book convention season. San Diego’s wrapped last month, Chicago’s just ended, and New York’s is currently gearing up. And these are just the biggies. This onslaught can be nirvana for pop culture nerds. But hordes of designers also flock to these events. This can appear puzzling, considering how media reports mostly emphasize the Hollywood hype, endless queues, cos-play nonsense and such. So let’s take a closer look in this comic-con guide. Pers
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- Sep 9, 2013
- 4 min
The NY in KUPER
Peter Kuper has produced countless comic panels since he started making them at age 19. This week through October 5 (with a special opening on September 25), he is having an exhibition at the Society of Illustrators MOCCA Gallery of the work from his new book Drawn To New York, a paean to the city he loves. The show is just the tip of the iceberg. His latest project is a new full color 300 page graphic novel called “Ruins” that is fiction but based on his experience living in
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- Jun 3, 2013
- 9 min
Peter Kuper: Drawn to an International Comic Art Career
Peter Kuper’s seen it all. And he wants us to see it, too. So he draws it for us. His visits to Latin America, the Middle East, and beyond have been providing him with perspective and inspiration for World War 3 Illustrated – America’s longest-running radical comic book anthology, since 1980. His various comics autobiographies include ComicsTrips: A Journal of Travels Through Africa and Southeast Asia. And his graphic novel adaptions of classic literature by authors such as F
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- Jun 29, 2012
- 4 min
Not the Harvey Pekar Graphic Novel You'd Expect
Harvey Pekar had been collaborating with the comic book artist JT Waldman on a book project, one that charts the journey from his Zionist upbringing to his questioning of Israel’s role in the world. But Pekar died in July 2010. Still, Waldman continued to work on it, and now it’s about to be published. Peter Kuper describes Not the Israel my Parents Promised Me as “an insightful look at one of the burning topics of our time. With Pekar’s scholarship and humor and JT Waldman’s
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