![]() ![]() A boy and girl from different neighbourhoods find love. ![]() ![]() An old, weary detective ruminates on his failures. It is immediate, evocative and effective.Ī stripper is murdered by a maniac. As if this was not challenge enough, Kuper pushed his own storytelling abilities to the limit by constructing his pages and panels from cut stencils, creating the narrative in a form akin to urban street art. It’s a beguiling, interlinked portmanteau tale of many lives interweaving and intersecting in the Big Apple, told without benefit of word-balloons, captions or sound effects. Following a moving preface from the author describing the genesis of the project, Senior News Editor at Publisher’s Weekly Carl Reid offers an effusive appreciation in ‘Bright Lights, Scary City’ before the wordless drama begins. The System was released as a softcover graphic album in 1997 and is magnificently repackaged here in a lavish hardback edition. Many of Kuper’s most impressive works have stemmed from his far-flung travels, but at heart he is a son of New York, with a huge amount of his work using the city as bit player or star attraction. Artist, storyteller and activist Peter Kuper has championed social causes, highlighted judicial and cultural inequities and spearheaded the use of narrative art as an effective means of political activism. ![]()
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