Glow of New York City’s scary magnificence.
Interests that loom over the lives of ordinary people, from strippers and crooked cops to martyred street artists, corporate financiers, and Pakistani drivers.Ĭapricious power of coincidence, the simple bonds of affection, the daily grind, and the super-charged existential consequences of ethnic and social complexity-and illuminates it all with the
Urban “system” is an elaborate network of coincidental encounters, parallel routines and, most important, the overlapping, interdependent tales of disparate social and politicized Narrative threads into a brightly patterned fabric of recognizable, fictionalized events-a kind of melodrama on the patterns of city life. Of Frans Masereal’s Passionate Journey, The System is a parable-like, sentimental meditation on the convulsive social drama of day-to-day urban life. Reconcile comics to their own formal history, to life and to art, and specifically to the knockabout experience of life in New York City….A wordless pictorial novel reminiscent Originally published in 1997, The System serves as an early repository of all influences, graphic achievements, and attempts to Three separate comics in 1996, later collected in a paperback anthology in 1997, The System is now available in a colorful hardcover edition. War 3 Illustrated were appropriated by protesters during the Tomkins Square Park Riot of 1988, to be transformed into improvised signage and DIY posters.įrom this day-to-day laboratory of conflictsĪnd coinciences, Kuper began mentally assembling The System, a wordless chronicle of the clashes and convergences of New York City’s populace. them” politics of the Lower East Side of Manhattan including housing rights, gentrification, police brutality, racism and economic inequality. Pages from World The anthology magazine was a home for comic book work and graphic/illustrated storytelling that was anti-establishmentĪnd aggressively critical of the social and political right-wing conservatism that prevailed following the election of President Ronald Reagan. Of World War 3 Illustrated, which was launched in December 1979. Of a butterfly’s wings in China could cause a storm in Manhattan, what would the various actions of a subway full of commuters incite?” “Was this trip all we have in common,” he thought, “or might our lives crisscross and impact one another in positive or even catastrophic ways. In a moment of heightened awareness one day back in 1995, Peter Kuper, while riding the packed #2 train, began wondering about his fellow passengers and their destinations in a new
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