Wish We Weren't Here: Postcards from the Apocalypse

New York TimesandRolling Stonecartoonist Peter Kuper addresses climate change and our oligarchical future in an all-new graphic novel / political cartoon hybrid.

Publisher Marketing: There can never be too many reminders of the imminent black hole humankind is creating for itself.-- "PRINT" Review Quotes : The editor of World War 3 Illustrated reflects on the current fractured state of world politics in single-page gag comics that originally ran in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo .-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : Time and again Kuper's imagination heads in directions no other cartoonist would take in interpreting how humanity is collectively running headlong and blindfolded toward the cliff edge by continuing to downplay the impact of climate change.-- "Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide" Review Quotes : Each one-page, four-panel strip starts with an image that slowly morphs into something more sinister and revelatory -- like a drawing of an oil rig that becomes a dying junkie's used needle. If that sounds confrontational and bleak, it is, but the book also turns the table a few times, transforming images of destruction into reasons for hope.-- "The Revelator" Publisher Marketing : 45 years after his first political cartoons focused on capitalism's impact, Peter Kuper takes stock of the state of the world... and isn't optimistic about what he sees. Across 100 pages of vivid, colorful, silent four-panel comics, Kuper traces as many aspects of how business and politics have accelerated the climate crisis, and looks at how, if things keep going in the direction they are, our oligarchic lives will be further transformed. Witty and angry in equal measure, Kuper deploys bold figures, clever metaphors, despairing howls, and some of the best drawings of his career to get his message across.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 144 | Publication Date: 2025-10-28