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Inspirational words from 95-year-old working master Jules Feiffer for all of us creating later in life and maybe earlier in life too.

A tribute is rendered in a lovely strip by Peter Kuper, who separately interviewed Feiffer on his career, his many creative hats, creating despite macular degeneration, and “the endless fight.”

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Black Spy Being Foodie

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Peter Kuper Spy vs. Spy sketches

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TW: Nazi symbol!!

This was not in my 2025 bingo....

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Peter Kuper

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Evening, folks. I think I need to get something off of my chest regarding a certain woman in gray from Spy vs. Spy.

As much as so many people would wish, or even hope, that Gray Spy would lose for once, on account of how much they hate her, I don't think that would be a good idea at all. I mean, Prohias refused to draw a woman enduring the fates that the two male spies, Black and White, go through on a regular basis because he wanted to be respectful to women. Don't get me wrong, I'm not too fond of her myself, but I'd rather stay true to the comics, and that includes Gray Spy always winning. I will admit, I'd like to use Gray Spy always winning as well as her seductive, manipulative, cruel, sadistic, and overall evil nature towards the male spies, which is why I view her as the antagonist (who never loses of course) despite that she was supposed to represent neutrality, as a message that women harming and/or taking advantage of men in any manner really should be taken just as seriously as the other way around.

However, after a few years, Prohias slowly phased her out of the comics after realizing that she was too predictable. Bob Clarke and Duck Edwing brought her back for three strips (two magazine strips and one paperback strip, with the latter marking her only appearance in the paperbacks), after Prohias retired in the late 80s, of course. Peter Kuper, however, made her into a recurring character. She also appeared in two of the Sunday strips, all 39 of which were illustrated by Dave Manak and written by Duck Edwing in 2002. Of course, she won in both of the Sunday strips she appeared in. Not gonna lie, I'm glad Prohias phased her out of the comics because I'd rather she not show up at all anyway. I mean, Spy vs. Spy lacked the good vs. evil element, thus giving the comics a perfectly good balance, and Gray Spy ruins it because like I said, she is practically the antagonist (again, who never loses) for the most part because she is so cruel and sadistic, probably even more so than the male spies, as well as being so seductive and manipulative towards Black and White. So yeah, I'm glad she never appeared in any of the MADtv shorts nor CN'S MAD shorts at all as she'd probably ruin them anyway.

Other than Prohias wanting to be respectful to women despite realizing that she was too predictable, I have a theory as to why Gray Spy always wins: Gray Spy always wins because she is significantly more intelligent than both Black Spy and White Spy (even put together). A weakness both Black and White have in common is attractive women and Gray Spy knows it, which may explain why she uses her seductive and manipulative nature to make them fall head over heels for her so she can take advantage of their gullibility, which of course results in both Black and White ending up in her traps every single time, especially during Prohias's era, before he phased her out, of course. Gray Spy is so intelligent that she is always at least one step ahead of the male spies, so even if both Black Spy and White Spy teamed up for once to defeat her once and for all, they will still fail miserably.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my thoughts, opinions, headcanon, and theory about Gray Spy. Peace.

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Bug haters when gregor samsa:

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"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka adapted by Peter Kuper. Oh, poor Gregor Samsa...

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Small Press Expo 2024 Announces the first round of Special Guests

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Vampire Spy vs Werewolf Spy

One of my favorite comics!!

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Peter Kuper “Rockets” Spy vs. Spy (undated) Source, source, source

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June 24, 2025

Today, we’re thinking about what we can learn from Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil, looking back at what the Hays Code did to Hollywood, remembering Alice Notley, and more!

On Lit Hub dot com:

What The Great Gatsby’s “glittering, gin-soaked indictment of how wealth, class, and social polish warp the distribution of power” can tell us about the absurd fiction of legal equality in America. | Lit Hub Politics

Sally Ventura remembers one of America’s earliest modern school shootings in Olean, New York. | Lit Hub History

Rebecca Grant chronicles how Mexican feminists fought for reproductive freedom at home and throughout the world. | Lit Hub Health

Steven W. Thrasher considers how Mahmoud Khalil and Zohran Mamdani show us a better way through the politics of vulnerability. | Lit Hub Politics

The 22 new books out today include titles by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and André Aciman! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“The newfound state of Hollywood as a willing participant in its own strict regulations was a great irony as well, one of epochal proportions.” How the Hays Code took the sex out of Hollywood. | Lit Hub Film

Dwyer Murphy recommends five uncanny literary mysteries set in coastal Massachusetts. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Pamela Newton examines the impact of Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice as a revival hits the off-Broadway stage. | Lit Hub Criticism

“Love and toxicity are hardly unfamiliar bedfellows.” Hal Ebbott tells Jane Ciabattari about writing a novel of male friendship. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Fran Littlewood recommends tales about sisters by Alison Espach, Katherine Mansfield, the Brothers Grimm, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“They had come from the hills behind the compound, south of the tennis court, slipping through a gap in the fence in the early morning.” Read from Aisling Rawle’s debut novel, The Compound. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

Anslem Berrigan reflects on the legacy of his mother, Alice Notley. | Interview

Decca Muldowney chronicles the fight between fanfiction writers and AI. | The Verge

Elisabeth Egan considers the latest trend in cover art: “blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old.” | The New York Times

“Something fascinating occurs if you start to think how the biosphere, as a total system of interactions between lifeforms and their habitats, is also like the inside of a dreaming head.” Timothy Morton considers the connection between our mental and ecological health. | The MIT Press Reader

Irene Velentzas talks to cartoonist and illustrator Peter Kuper about insects, Kafka, and the “prophetic nature of art and literature.” | The Comics Journal

“I think it’s interesting that to this day, a lot of mainstream understandings of the causes of this twinned economic and ecological collapse, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl drought, omit colonial violence.” Anna Marie Cain interviews Karen Russell. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Picture + Panel | Peter Kuper + Allison Conway share the buzz on insects

We continue our interview series in advance of a live question-and-answer session between the two creators in Boston next week.