monarch’s journey: a coloring book

A 48-page color-in story about the monarch butterfly, its migration, and the environmental challenges it faces along the way

Monarch’s Journey distinguishes itself from other coloring books through its narrative: the plight of the monarch butterfly as it struggles to navigate and survive the environmental changes of our modern world. Drawing upon Eisner-winner Peter Kuper’s legacy as a cartoonist and insect conservation advocate, Monarch’s Journey is a visual, interactive parable for adults and children alike that speaks to the perseverance needed to survive in the natural world and our role in influencing it.

Peter Kuper’s work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad, where he wrote and illustrated Spy vs. Spy for 26 years. In 1979, he cofounded World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine that is still published to this day. He has produced over two dozen books, including Sticks and Stones, The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Drawn to New York, adaptations of many of Franz Kafka’s works, including The Metamorphosis and the short story collection Kafkaesque, as well as Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. Translations of his work have appeared in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Slovenia, China, Brazil, Poland, Sweden, Israel, Turkey, Germany, and Mexico. Peter has lectured and exhibited his work extensively throughout the world and teaches Harvard University’s first ever class dedicated to graphic novels. In 2016, his graphic novel Ruins won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album. He was also the 2020-21 Jean Strouse Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, received a 2022 Yaddo residency, and won the 2024 RFK Cartoon Award. He is currently working on a graphic novel on the history of insects and the people who study them.