![]() ![]() Palmer’s Picks Kuper’s Comics By Tom Palmer Jr.Ĭhances are you’ve never heard of Peter Kuper. Spy” run that he started shortly before this column first saw print is still going strong in the pages of Mad Magazine. Thankfully, the rest of the world has caught up to Kuper’s work and he’s released a good number of graphic novels in the last twenty years, including a recent adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. The only problem was that those venues really didn’t exist back then. ![]() His work in the ’90s seemed tailor-made for the bookstore market. The intervening years have been kind to Kuper. There are so many more avenues for comics outside of the typical monthly format, so it’s possible for a cartoonist to carve out a following without ever having a mainstream comic series, and I think it would be entirely appropriate for someone writing about comics today to not have to explain why you might not have heard of a certain creator. While I don’t think that notion has really changed today-a good number of Marvel/DC readers are still fairly myopic in their buying habits-the lines between what is and isn’t mainstream have really blurred. My intro paragraph for this column makes the point that while Kuper’s magazine artwork was ever-present, the audience of Wizard wouldn’t know his comic book work. ![]() Flash in the pan artist Joe Madureira was so popular, he was hired to draw a cover featuring two obscure X-Men characters for Wizard #72. ![]()
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