Most everything I read from newspapers to fiction drives my work. Music feeds my creativity and I often use it to help me give my drawings a particular flavor and energy. My favorite part of the art process is when I am able to listen to music while I draw. What has been the relationship between music & literature in your life and art? How does affect your inspiration? It serves as a catharsis and a way of processing and capturing my experiences, but I also hope to connect with other people and share my perspective. I am trying to do work that reflects my experience living on earth in the 20 th-21 st century. It inspired my graphic novel Ruins and another book, Diario de Oaxaca. Being in the middle of that action made me an eyewitness to the clash and much more. During that time there was a teachers’ strike, which blew up into an international event, and federal troops arrived. When the two meet it’s ideal, as it happened to me when I lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for two years. World events mixed with personal experience. What experiences have triggered your ideas most frequently? What characterize the philosophy of your artwork? He has been teaching comics courses at The School of Visual Arts for over 25 years and is a visiting professor at Harvard University.Īrtworks, Self portaits, Photos © by Peter Kuper Archive / All Rights Reserved His most recent graphic novel Ruins chronicles the migration of the Monarch butterfly interwoven with a couples’ journey to Mexico. Peter lived in Oaxaca, Mexico from July 2006-2008 during a major teachers’ strike and his work from that time can be seen in can be seen in his book Diario de Oaxaca.
Peter has also adapted Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and many of Franz Kafka's works into comics including The Metamorphosis, which is used in high school and college curriculums in the US and abroad. He has produced over two dozen books including The System, Stop Forgetting To Remember and Sticks and Stones, which won The Society of Illustrators' gold medal. He is the co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated a political comix magazine and has remained on its editorial board since 1979.
Peter Kuper’s illustrations and comics have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world including Time, The New York Times and MAD where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. "Counterculture is the various artistic endeavors that are ahead of their time, often unrecognized, marginalized and resisted especially when they have a political subtext."
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