While reading Stop Forgetting To Remember, I stopped many times to think, "if I were to write a graphic novel, it would feel a lot like this." Full of self-depreciating humor, pandering to the audience, and one-off subtle jokes, I immediately connected with Kuper's alter-ego, Walter Kurtz.It's not the most organized books, nor the most profound. But it's funny and insightful and a good deal of fun.A quick, enjoyable read -- especially if you're a fan of depreciating humor. Three stars.

The only thing worse than hearing one of your friends brag about his acid trips is hearing two of your friends brag about their adorable baby. Similarly, the only kind of autobiographical comic I dread reading more than the teenage drug fiend story is the "let's have a baby" story. The hipster and the bourgeoisie are the twin horns of lame, and these two emblematic narratives are like their spoor, left behind when they pass.So Peter Kuper's Stop Forgetting to Remember focuses on drug use and bab...

10th book read in 2016.Number 218 out of 503 on my all time book list.Review Pending:

the million-and-fifth "loser-kid-who-did-a-lot-of-drugs becomes an adult and makes a sexist and vaguely political autobiography/self-insert comic about being an Adult post 9-11" comic i've read. this one didn't even have any redeeming qualities. it read like a parody of the genre while not managing to be funny.

Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Peter Kuper. This quasi-autobiographical meditation on fantasy and reality succeeds in being as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.Peter Kuper is an American alternative comics artist and illustrator, best known for his autobiographical, political, and social observations.Like Kuper, his alter ego Kurtz is a cartoonist who divides his time between mainstream and independent work while also

An odd little piece, ostensibly the autobiography of cartoonist Walter Kurtz, but really the (almost not) disguised biography of the author Peter Kuper. And the focus isn't on all of Kuper's life. You have framing sequences of Kurtz in the late nineties and early aughts, dealing with the birth and growth of his daughter, and flashbacks to his teens and early twenties and his experiences with sex, relationships, and drugs. Like most Kuper work, there's amazing energy in the pencils and a huge amo...

I would have called it two stars, but Peter Kuper is a really talented artist, with all the brilliant woodcut work in his version of The Metamorphisis, his version with David Mazzucchelli of Paul Auster's City of Glass, rich, sophisticated, nuanced, insightful, helping us rethink the nature of narrative... brilliant artwork.. and the art in this story, which is essentially the autobiography of Kuper, depicting Kurtz as a kind of alter-ego (?) , and for what reason, and it is really not that funn...

And it's a pretty great book. If you've ever read Kuper's 1995 book Stripped: an unauthorized autobiography, you'll actually recognize a lot of the content - many old pages are re-touched and put into new contexts.But where the first book was basically his reminiscence of his teenage years - too many drugs, too little sex, and lots of rock and roll - replete with his enjoyment of masturbation and the battle between his adolescent lust and his adolescent fear -- Stop Forgetting focuses on Kuper's...

This one has been on my to-read list for a long time, and what finally prompted me to get off my ass and read it was Kuper's brief bio of Harvey Kurtzman in the new Masterful Marks collection. And as with that bio, this "autobiography" -- Kuper frames his own story as a fiction, in many ways -- is presented in an unconventional manner, which is one of the narrative's greatest strengths. The last 1/5 of the book becomes less reflective of the past (and the implications of that in the present) and...

This guy is a dick. I had picked this up since it was a graphic novel. When I was flipping through it he (towards the end of the novel) talks about parenthood and it sparked my interest. I read it yesterday and I'm still pissed. He has no respect for women and it makes me sick to my stomach that he has a daughter that someday might read his vacant, self-serving, diatribe that reeks of disrespect for women. Women are not stepping stones on your path through life Peter Kuper, (or things to ogle li...

It seems that if you have read one autobiographical comic you may have read them all.As a rule of thumb (so that you know) comic artists and cartoonists live very boring lives enriched only by tattle tale sex lives that they illustrate very well on paper. Everyone of them will complain about the industry and go on about their struggle as artists. That's the males, anyway.After you've read a few they seem so same ole same ole -- often varying only in their penchant for misogyny. Peter Kuper's eff...

I really liked this book - I will probably buy it sometime. The idea is really cool and is carried out with the art very well. Essentially, the writer is getting married and having a child and doesn't want to forget his sometimes awkward/embarrassing past. The present is drawn in black and white; the past is red and white. Extremely honest and open while almost making fun of himself, the story is entertaining, to say the least. Lots of sex and drug use for those worried about it, but a really go...

The autobiography of Walter Kurtz, but really an only slightly fictionalized version of the life of Peter Kuper. Really one of the better graphic novels I've read in a while. Covers all the normal territory of autobio-gns, but the art is so sophisticated and the content is well thought out, meta-treated, and downright deep. Quality stuff. Read it in one sitting. I especially appreciated Kuper's integration of experimental techniques (elements of fantasy/magic realism, creative use of color...) i...

Even for an alter-ego, Walter Kurtz seems to be drawn dangerously close to the reality of artist-author Peter Kuper, but the obscured lines between fact and fiction serves to ground the story and make it accessible to anyone who reads it.Walter narrates the reflections on his past, leaving no humiliating detail unexamined, starting with his hormone- and drug-fueled adolescence. The pains of growing up are interspersed with his pains of being grown up: parenthood, losing touch with old friends an...

Ick.I didn't finish it so perhaps I shouldn't rate it, but I didn't finish it because I found it to be pretty dreadful. Guy talking about being a comic artist, something of a fictionalized memoir all about being a nerd as a kid, doing a lot of drugs, trying to get laid. There are parts that take place in the present, with his wife, with his old friend, kind of connecting the flashbacks. The third of the book I read I find to be smug, self-absorbed, cliched, creepily objectifying of women. I've r...

An autobiography of cartoonist Peter Kuper, billed as "The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz," is a step or two removed from the author. In fact, it is also removed from the readership.Kuper, famed New York-based cartoonist behind such as Sticks and Stones, Give it Up! and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, and Stripped, hides behind his alter ego of Walt Kurtz, presumably for reasons of privacy (more specifically, that of the secondary characters herein). However, he also relies heavily on the use of st...

There's plenty in this that seems all too familiar ...another graphic novel by a comic artist about a comic artist..about singles scene...about coming of age...teenage masturbation and drugs..troubles with women etc. But despite all this, i really enjoyed it. Kuper's cleverness humour and honesty save him. His attitude to women is not misogynist (as one reviewer below says) it's honest- and this is a good book to see a man's point of view. I don;t love his art which often feels boxy and stiff, b...

It is hard not to compare the narrative of the story with other writers, and Michael Chabon comes to mind, as he is adept at describing one's fictional life, which Peter Kuper tries to do in this book. The drawings are good, but the story itself seems flat.

Very dark and funny story at times.

This book has all of the stuff I like most from Peter Kuper - not too political, though there's a little of that, and funny. It's a pretty quick read. I'm not so sure about having the book talk about trying to get the book published - maybe a little too self referential - and there was definitely room to develope alot of things he didn't, like fatherhood, reactions to Bush, etc. so maybe there'll be a follow up some day.