Peter Kuper BIO

Peter Kuper’s work appears regularly in Charlie Hebdo, The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad , where he has written and illustrated “Spy vs. Spy” since 1997. He is the co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine now in its 47th year of publication. He has produced over two dozen books including Sticks and Stones (winner of The Society of Illustrators gold medal), The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works into comics including The Metamorphosis, Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Rueben award and 2022 Lucca award for short stories) and an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.Translations of his work have appeared in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Slovenia, China, Brazil, Poland, Sweden, Israel, Germany and Mexico.

Peter has lectured extensively throughout the world and teaches Harvard University’s first class dedicated to graphic novels. He was the 2020-21 Jean Strouse Fellow at The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center and received a 2022 Yaddo residency. His Exhibition INterSECTS: was on display at the New York Public Library Jan. 14- Aug 13th 2022. INSECTOPOLIS, a graphic novel on the history of insects was published by W.W. Norton MAY 2025 and has won the Entomology Society of America’s Science Communication Award. He is the winner of the 2024 RFK Journalism Award in cartooning and the 2025 Herblock Finalist Prize.

He teaches cartooning at Harvard University.

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Contact: pkuperart@gmail.com