Peter Kuper's work has appeared in, among others, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Village Voice, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY. His Eye of the Beholder was the first comic strip to regularly appear in The New York Times and is now syndicated nationally to alternative papers.Rolling Stone named him Comic Book Artist of the Year in 1995 and he has won awards from American Illustration, Print, Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts, among others. His comics have been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and Greek and his artwork has been exhibited around the world.

He has written and illustrated many books, including ComicsTrips, a journal of the artist's eight month journey through Africa and Southeast Asia. An inveterate traveler, he has also made lengthy stays in Europe, Central America, the Mideast, Mexico, New Guinea, and Cleveland.

In 1979, Kuper co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated with Seth Tobocman and remains on its editorial board to this day. He taught a course on alternative comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1986 and is also an art director of INX, a political illustration group.

Peter Kuper lives in Manhattan with his wife Betty Russell, and their daughter Emily.