Mind's Eye: An Eye of the Beholder Collection: A Collection of Visual Puzzles

by Peter Kuper

Started as the first comic strip ever to run in the New York Times , this silent set of strips chronicles the world, its foibles, its intricacies, its dreams through the eyes of most anything you can imagine. Set up as visual puzzles, the trick is to figure out whose eyes they are before turning the page and seeing the final panel...In a beautiful small hardcover format.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

125 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Peter Kuper is an American alternative comics artist and illustrator, renowned for his politically charged, socially conscious, and often autobiographical work. He co-founded the influential anthology World War 3 Illustrated, and is best known for his long-running reinvention of Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine from 1997 to 2022. Kuper has produced numerous graphic novels, including award-winning adaptations of Franz Kafka’s Give It Up! and The Metamorphosis, as well as autobiographical works like Stop Forgetting To Remember and Diario de Oaxaca, documenting life, travel, and social struggles. His illustration work has appeared on covers and in publications such as Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. Kuper’s style often merges comics and illustration techniques, with both wordless narratives and text-driven storytelling, reflecting his belief that the two disciplines are inseparable. He has traveled extensively across Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia, often documenting these experiences in sketchbook journals. Kuper has taught courses on comics and illustration at the Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, and Harvard University’s first class on graphic novels. He has received numerous awards, including recognition from the Society of Newspaper Designers, the Society of Illustrators, and Eisner and NCS awards for his work. His comics combine sharp political commentary, personal observation, and inventive visual storytelling, establishing him as a prominent figure in contemporary alternative comics and illustration.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book from 2000.

So, imagine my surprise when a boy with an M80 type firework envisions destroying both twin-towers (+surrounding buildings)- with the first destruction panel even having one exploding at about the height of the plane's impact. Whaaaaat? That's clearly a form of clairvoyance! Why did he pick ->them<- as the boy's interest?
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[Printable Tire]

a real "woah makes ya think!" collection of mostly obvious heavy-handed twists (though I did like Pedestrian Sign World), the only saving grace perhaps the cartoon that premeditated 9/11.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here's what it is:
Each right-hand page has four panels, all from a single point of view. The following left-hand page reveals the viewer.

For example, four panels of a woman's lusty adventures is seen by a smiling priest on the other side of the confessional!

The life cycle of a frog is seem by a young girl in biology class!

A despondent, desperate man and woman are seen by their bouncing bundle of baby joy!

Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political - Kuper's all over the map in terms of intention, but quality is almost always very high.