Product Description: 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.
Amazon.com Review: Funny, enlightening, and unsettling, Peter Kuper's work is never dull. Mind's Eye: An Eye of the Beholder Collection assembles his newspaper strip work and provides a more appropriate format for the puzzle-like pieces. Each consists of four small frames "seen" by a particular viewer and a fifth, larger frame pulling back to see whose eyes we were looking through before. Kuper's blocky style, reminiscent of primitive eastern European propaganda posters, perfectly captures the hidden anxieties and rare pleasures of ordinary life, especially the heightening of senses brought about by crisis. His progressive-left political slant suffuses the book, which touches on larger themes as well as the more personal. --Rob Lightner
A Clever Storytelling Angle with INSPIRED Artwork Kuper's sketches are some of the best and most appealing I've ever seen, be sure to see what he's doing with the black and white MAD Magazine 'SPY VS. SPY', which he gave fresh life to. This book has a clever angle and mystery to every book which doesn't come across as a cheap gimmick suprise, all while telling a good/meaningful story.
Great Coffee Table Book The formula works like this--there are four panels on the front of the page which give you a visual clue.
Turn the page and on the back is the fifth panel, which "concludes" or solves the puzzle of the first four.
Extremely simple, but extremely entertaining. The fifth panel usually takes a left turn to some quirky conclusion (which makes it that much more fun to figure out).
I leave this out on my coffee table, and people are constantly hooked after just one or two "puzzles."
This is the second copy of this I've owned--the softcover version wasn't bound all that well and fell apart quickly. However, I had so many people over who asked me what happened to "that really neat comic book" that I bought this hardcover version--which holds up well.
Great for your guests or a few hours of fun.
These visual puzzles provide much food for thought Mind's Eye is the second 'Eye of the Beholder' collection, which began as the first comic strip to run in the New York Times, and provides a fine set of black and white strips which presents a particular viewpoint. These visual puzzles provide much food for thought: there are panels of scenes, then turn the page for the unifying concept linking them.
Anything Goes Trivia
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