Author-illustrator Peter Kuper's Eisner Award-winning graphic novel Ruins is a story of love, adventure, and politics--and two lives changed forever by Mexico and the monarch butterfly.

"Kuper's art is, page after page, astonishing." --Jules Feiffer

Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, their journey to this historic town is about fulfilling a lifelong dream; for George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. As the couple embark on their adventure, a monarch butterfly begins its arduous migration south from the United States to Mexico . . . It is a challenging journey--a flight that requires remarkable endurance and a will to survive.

Beneath Oaxaca's picturesque and serene veneer--the 16th-century architecture, the nearby ruins--it is a town shaken to the core by political unrest. As the monarch butterfly makes its challenging journey south, political events threaten to change the town forever. What's more, personal events look like they will alter the paths of Samantha and George for good.

Ruins masterfully captures the shadows and light of a troubled country steeped in history and culture, weaving together personal, political and natural dramas into a thrilling portrait of life south of the Rio Grande.

Author: Peter Kuper
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Selfmadehero
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781914224188

About the Author
Peter Kuper's work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad, where he wrote and illustrated "Spy vs. Spy" for 26 years. In 1979 he co-founded World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine that is still published to this day. He has produced over two dozen books including Sticks and Stones, The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Drawn to New York, adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works including The Metamorphosis and the short story collection Kafkaesque as well as Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness. Translations of his work have appeared in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Slovenia, China, Brazil, Poland, Sweden, Israel, Turkey, Germany and Mexico. Peter has lectured and exhibited his work extensively throughout the world and teaches Harvard University's first class dedicated to graphic novels. He was the 2020-21 Jean Strouse Fellow at The New York Public Library's Cullman Center and received a 2022 Yaddo residency.