![]() ![]() He showed me pages of original art from Ruins, a new work about Oaxaca. Most recently I saw him at the MoCCA Fest last April in NYC. He joked he was living proof, and that his memory lapses were not the result of recreational drug use, but paint fumes. He warned students that even wearing a protective painter’s mask one loses brain cells to the technique. ![]() He called it “poor man’s airbrush” – using cans of black spray paint with paper and tape friskets. He shared his unique illustration technique for adding tone to black and white images. We were thrilled he took the Bieber bus to Kutztown for the modest fee we offer guests artists. ![]() I invited him to talk to Kutztown University illustration students. In 2007, I was honored when he contacted me to identify Mexican graffiti for his graphic memoir, Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two years in Mexico. Peter Kuper adding a watercolor sketch to his signature for a fan at MOCCA. Ruins succeeds on so many levels: great graphic art remarkable storytelling, and stunning production values. ![]() I’d call it his masterpiece, but Kuper has already proved himself a master. Peter Kuper’s Ruins is a magnificent graphic novel, the best I’ve read this year. ![]()
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