Comics , October 10, 2010. Kuper, Tobocman, and painter Christof Kohlhofer founded
World War 3 Illustrated in 1979. Kuper has travelled extensively through Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, much of which he documented in his 1992 book,
ComicsTrips: A Journal of Travels Through Africa and Southeast Asia.
Spy vs. Spy had passed through various hands after its creator
Antonio Prohías retired, but Kuper's version has appeared without interruption since 1997, although the last new edition was published in 2022. Kuper's
Eye of the Beholder was the first comic strip to ever regularly appear in the
New York Times, and his quasi-autobiography
Stop Forgetting To Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz covers the birth of his daughter,
9/11, and other vicissitudes in his life from 1995 to 2005. Though permanently based in New York City, Kuper wife and daughter resided in the Mexican state of
Oaxaca 2006–2008, where he documented an ongoing teachers' strike and other aspects of Mexico in his sketchbook journal
Diario de Oaxaca. Kuper's work in comics and illustration frequently combines techniques from both disciplines and often takes the form of wordless comic strips. Kuper remarked on this, "I initially put comics on one side and my illustration in another compartment, but over the years I found that it was difficult to compartmentalize like that. The two have merged together so that they're really inseparable." Kuper has taught comics and illustration courses at the
Parsons School of Design, and
The School of Visual Arts and
Harvard University’s first class dedicated to graphic novels. In April 2022, Kuper was reported among the more than three dozen comics creators who contributed to
Operation USA's benefit anthology book,
Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, a project spearheaded by
IDW Publishing Special Projects Editor
Scott Dunbier, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kuper contributed political cartoons to the anthology.
Illustration As an illustrator, Kuper has produced covers for
Time, He has done hundreds of illustrations for newspapers including
The New York Times and for magazines such as
Rolling Stone,
Entertainment Weekly, and
The New Yorker. since 1988. ==Awards==