WISH WE WEREN'T HERE POSTCARDS FROM THE APOCALYPSE

New York Times and Rolling Stone cartoonist Peter Kuper addresses climate change and our oligarchical future in an all-new graphic novel / political cartoon hybrid. 45 years after his first political cartoons focused on capitalism's impact, Peter Kuper takes stock of the state of the world. Across 100 pages of vivid and colorful four-panel comics, Kuper traces 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 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. Each page is a single blackly funny gag strip, but themes flow, recur and build across sequences to create a true hybrid of political cartoon and graphic novel. Since co-founding the influential political comics magazine World War III Illustrated in 1979, Kuper has maintained his deeply humanist / anti-capitalist perspective, while developing and broadening his graphic and story-telling skills across a range of topics and styles. In this book, he brings all of that experience, study and passion together into a powerful work that stands as a culmination of his career. See the future now, and laugh hollowly while you still can. "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