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The System

The System

The System Hardback - 2014

by Peter Kuper

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  • Title The System
  • Author Peter Kuper
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PM Press, Oakland
  • Publication date 2014-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781604868111
  • ISBN 9781604868111 / 1604868112
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.2 x 7.5 x 0.6 in (28.45 x 19.05 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, etc
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013956916
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.5
  • Quantity available 4

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Reader reviews for The System

From the publisher

Actions speak louder than words.

It's said that the flutter of insect wings in the Indian Ocean can send a hurricane crashing against the shores of the American Northeast. It's this premise that lies at the core of The System, a wordless graphic novel created and fully painted by award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper. From the subway system to the solar system, human lives are linked by an endless array of interconnecting threads. They tie each of us to our world and it to the universe. If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, get ready to run for cover!

A sleazy stockbroker is lining his pockets. A corrupt cop is shaking down drug dealers. A mercenary bomber is setting the timer. A serial killer is stalking strippers. A political scandal is about to explode. The planet is burning. And nobody's talking.

Told without captions or dialogue, The System is an astonishing progression of vivid imagery, each brilliantly executed panel containing a wealth of information, with layer upon layer forming a vast and intricate tour of an ominous world of coincidences and consequences.

About the author

Peter Kuper is a cofounder and editorial board member of political graphics magazine World War 3 Illustrated and a teacher who has taught at New York's School of Visual Arts and Parsons the New School for Design. Best known for drawing Mad magazine's Spy vs. Spy comic since 1997, he has also illustrated covers for Newsweek and Time magazine. He is the author of the graphic novel Sticks and Stones, which won the New York Society of Illustrators Gold Medal; Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico; Drawn to New York; and Ruins, winner of the 2016 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Calvin Reid is a contributing editor and head of the comics department at Publishers Weekly, where heads the magazine's annual African American issue and coedits its online comics newsletter, PW Comics Week. They both live in New York City.

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