Intense, vivid and disturbing.

Geniální a strhující! Peter Kuper vám poodhalí systém života ve velkoměstě. Tento příběh, vyprávěný v komiksu beze slov, se stal legendou po právu!Celá recenze zde: vlcibouda.net/komiks/system---Brilliant and exciting! This has all rights to be called legend!

2,5

A bloody little cause-and-effect urban story in the style of Shaun Tan, and other wordless graphic artists.

Even after having his art on the cover of Time, Newsweek and The New Yorker, Peter Kuper keeps it real with his wordless portrait of New York City. Told in a series of intertwining narratives, this full color stencil-style comic reads more like a film, reminiscent of the intersecting storylines in Crash and the innovative sequencing of Slacker, while paying fitting tribute to the forefather of the wordless novella, Frans Masereel in conveying the sensation of an urban environ without the use of

I really liked the colors but didn't care for anything else about the art. The narrative flows well and is easy to follow despite being wordless and having a large cast, but it felt unoriginal and didn't do anything to make me care about any of its characters.

Peter Kuper por medio su novela gráfica, relata o mejor dicho, por medio de las imágenes (sólo cuando los personajes leen periódicos o algún cartel aparece texto escrito) nos narran diferentes historias ante una realidad muy cercana.Publicada originalmente en 1997 pero, recopilada en su totalidad en el 2014, sus protagonistas viven en una gran urbe, cada uno tiene un estrato social, corrupción, racismo por mencionar algunos temas aparecen como una radiografía social. Pareciera que el autor visua...

I could not really follow the story, and it’s only pictures. His other books are pretty good though.

عمل صامت يقرأ في دفعة واحدة، يأخذك بين عشرات الحكايات الصغيرة والمتناثرة داخل الطاحونة الوحشية للحياة النيويوركية.

A graphic novel very light on text that will assault your senses. It paints a picture of a city driven by corruption, greed, and dark needs tempered with the lives of those who are trying to rise above the dark underbelly of their home. Jarring images drive the point home without the need for text in this raw gritty graphic novel.

My decline into the world of more pictures/less words hit a low with the System. It's a depth I'm glad to plumb. Darkly rich story set in New York City.

A wordless graphic novel by Peter Kuper first released in 1997, now re-released in 2014. With brightly colored stencil and spray painted drawings that sort of bleed across panels, this is an impressively told story, though the story itself is pretty grim, with what seem to me some pretty stereotypical images of the New York he know and loves well. I think of the silent Charlie Chaplin and Eric Drooker's Flood and Franz Masereel's wordless work, though Kuper seems to me grimmer. Maybe Drooker is

Quando pensamos num sujeito icônico que leva a linguagem dos quadrinhos aos seus limites artísticos, geralmente pensamos em Daniel Clowes e suas obras malucas, introspectivas e simbólicas. Mas outros artistas fizeram similares.Além do próprio Will Eisner, um deles é Peter Krupe, nesse fantástico O Sistema. Sem diálogos, vemos a rotina de Nova York seguindo personagens como executivos de empresa, moradores de rua, grafiteiros, trabalhadores. A história é simples, mas aos poucos vemos uma crescent...

Felt completely current and relevant today.

2020-06-15 EDIT: Almost two years later I barely remember anything about this at all, so I guess the key descriptive word here is "forgettable."Thought I'd see what he looks like when he's not adapting Kafka, which I enjoyed enough. The stencil technique here gives it an unusual-yet-familiar urban look. It's not exactly "wordless" as advertised though; more like "without dialog." There are no speech balloons to hide behind, but significant elements of the plot (such as it is) are revealed in tex...

One of my favorite things about books are the words that make them up. This book had no dialogue; the only words to appear were in the background, on newspapers, billboards, etc. Still, after "reading" it (in like an hour), I feel like it told a story better than most people do with actual words. The weaving in and out of the character's stories, the art, and the plot were all fantastic. Read this book!

Прикольний комікс без слів (майже - тільки газетні заголовки), про те, як пов'язані прошарки суспільства, від бідних до багатих, від злочинців до поліції і тд, доволі похмура картина, але ефектний і круто перегукуються панельки. Хотілось би більше. Зараз читається за 15 хв і ок. Але напевно на 97 рік і в сша ваще бомба пушка був.

A graphic novel, no words, showing a "dark side" to NYC. The standard evil corporation goons with dark glasses doing shady deals, fat white cops taking money from skinny black drug dealers, family loving strippers getting butchered by religious nuts, all the "real stuff" like that. I did enter the world, enjoyed it, but it said nothing to me, and when I put it down I even forgot how it all ended for the characters.

A picture can speak thousands of words and tell so many stories. Peter Kuper proves that in this. The System, a book I've heard many good things about, and finally had a chance to get a copy and experience for myself, is a wordless graphic novel telling the stories of the darker veins that run along the body of New York City. The pastel art work is beautiful, breathtaking, and works wonderfully with the style in which we almost find things swimming like dreamscapes in certain scenes. The grit an...

After years of trying to read "The System" I finally managed to read it all the way through. Read is the wrong word as the book as no text, merely pictures.They say a picture is worth a thousand words, illustrated perfectly in this story. It tells the story of greed, corruption, murder and adultery in a world that is falling apart at the seams. The book opens with the William Blake quote "I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans". The same can be said about the process of writing, s...