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...nearly 25 years Peter Kuper has worked to raise the consciousness of comix. In 1980, inspired by the Reagan Revolution, he co-founded the highly politicized magazine "Word War 3 Illustrated," an early conflation of 'zine and comix anthology. Since then he has expanded his repertoire into travel comix, autobiography and even the "Spy vs. Spy" strip in "Mad." (He has also done a fair amount of illustration work for TIME.) But his political comix have always been the standouts. As far back as the late 1940s, EC comics included themes of racial inequities and the hypocrisies...
Among the facts lawyers want Judge Matsch to consider are witness reports that resurrect nagging questions about whether a larger conspiracy led to the April 1995 bombing that took 168 lives. One of the documents, for instance, summarizes a call received by the FBI from Morris John Kuper Jr., who told investigators to check out activities in a parking lot a block away from the Murrah Federal Building about an hour before it was blown apart. Kuper later testified that he had seen a man resembling McVeigh walking with a dark-haired, muscular companion--a description that matches those...
...final panelist was political cartoonist Peter Kuper, who said he now exists in a self-proclaimed "netherworld between politics and Garfield...
...Kuper displayed a slide show of his work, which includes the political comic strip, "Topsy Turvy," that appears every Sunday in the New York Daily News...
...Kuper said he hopes his work attracts people to politics who might not be interested in the first place but are looking for a punch line. Maybe in this way, he said, the media helps bring the public closer to the political arena...