'Cartooning is an art that can be universally recognized and appreciated. 'This is our world, folks, as it exists right now, teetering on the brink of something we can't quite imagine, laid out by Peter Kuper as a flow chart of parallels and coincidences and connecting fibers so powerful and occult that a pin dropped in a back street creates shock waves that make skyscrapers tremble.' -Luc Sante, author, Low Life The star of the story is the dark city itself, and the point is how money ties all its occupants-whether they know it or not-together.' -Gavin Edwards, Details Kuper uses his trademark spray-paint/stencil art to send us careening through a kinetic New York landscape, jump-cutting from a crooked cop to a stripper, panning from a homeless guy to a cell-phone yuppie. 'Though it has no word balloons or thought bubbles, The System is filled with so much urban clatter, you'll want to seal your windows shut. into a dreamily suspenseful tale of corruption and ambition utilizing his signature color-stencil-art style to depict a class-conscious saga superior in depth and emotion to a year's stockpile of the New York Post.' -Robert Morales, Vibe intertwines the lives of several instantly identifiable New York City archetypes. 45 slug drifting through a gun barrel, Peter Kuper's The System gives urban tragedy an almost graceful inevitability.

'A dark, dense, subtle portrait of the intricate continuum of urban life-and death-done in such bold strokes and shapes that you will never see the city in the same way again.' -Kirkpatrick Sale, author, After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination 'Kuper's brilliant visual novel, much like Fritz Lang, creates a comic noir of corruption and innocence in a city where the devil is always in the details.' -Sue Coe, artist and author, Dead Meat 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. A corrupt cop is shaking down drug dealers. If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, get ready to run for cover!Ī sleazy stockbroker is lining his pockets. They tie each of us to our world and it to the universe. From the subway system to the solar system, human lives are linked by an endless array of interconnecting threads. 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.

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.

The system by peter kuper