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Peter Kuper INterSECTs on May 25th

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 17, 2022

Our CagleCartoonist Peter Kuper, sends me this announcement of a cool event, in New York City and online, about his fantastic “insects in the library” exhibition “INterSECTS”. I wrote about this exhibition when it first started back in January. I encourage everyone to join Peter online. And enjoy Peter’s new masterpieces below.

Having spent a lifetime fascinated by flying, crawling creatures and nearly a year working inside the New York Public Library as a 2020-21 Cullman Fellow, I not only had the opportunity to explore my grant subject– the history of insects– but also the remarkable building itself.

I’m (insanely) working towards a 200+ page graphic novel INterSECTS that will take me years, but in the meantime had the great fortune to be given an exhibition in the library’s Stokes Gallery that includes excerpts of this project and my earlier graphic novel Ruins. I’ll also be bugging out with some experts on the subject, May 25th.”

The event will be streaming (and later on YouTube, so people don’t have to be in NYC to attend) Inspired by The New York Public Library’s current exhibition INterSECTS, curator and cartoonist Peter Kuper gathers his friends from the insect world to bring the exhibition to life for a special one-night-only with visual presentations and talks at the 42nd Street Library, May 25th 6:30-7:30 EST

Tickets/livestream details here: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/05/25/bugging-out-peter-kuper-and-friends-celebrate-intersects

Congratulations, Peter. Great fun.

See Peter’s editorial cartoon archive.

See Peter’s personal Web site with more samples from his exhibition.

See more art from Peter’s exhibition on my original blog post, from when Peter’s exhibition first started back in January.

Tags Cullman Fellow, exhibition, insects, intersects, Manhattan, New York Public Library, Peter Kuper, show

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Where Arthropods and Homo Sapiens Meet

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 17, 2022

Our brilliant CagleCartoonist, Peter Kuper, has a great exhibition that is up now at the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Here are some images and comments from Peter …

Here are some comments from Peter:

INterSECTS is a combination of my two passions —comics and insects (actually I have more passions than those, but these are two big ones).

I got a fellowship at the New York public library last year, and since it landed in the middle of Covid the library was completely closed to the public. That inspired me to use the empty space as a backdrop and populate it with the insects I was drawing as I studied their history and where they intersected with humans. This exhibition transpired rather suddenly after my fellowship ended. They needed some kind of exhibition in the space, but with the pandemic didn’t know what they could pull off and my work happen to fit perfectly. Installing the show has been like threading a needle during this pandemic but now it’s up and will be for the next 7 months.

Some images from the show …

Congratulations, Peter. Great fun.

See Peter’s editorial cartoon archive.

See Peter’s personal Web site with more samples from his exhibition.

Tags exhibition, In ter sects, insects, intersects, Manhattan, New York Public Library, Peter Kuper, show

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AMAZING

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 21, 2018

These maze cartoons were a proposal for a maze puzzle that I pitched to the syndicates as a Sunday funnies weekly feature way back in 1992.

I like drawing mazes; there is something relaxing about the mindlessness of it. When this feature didn’t get syndicated, the “Really Amazing” “drop panel” on the right evolved into the pitch for my TRUE cartoons in 1994.

Editors often ask us for puzzles, but not enough to pay someone to create puzzles for Cagle Cartoons, I think. Still, if there was something amazing, we’d consider it.