Description:
Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
Shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025 - A Booklist Editors' Choice for Best Graphics Novels of 2025 - One of The Beat's Best Comics of 2025 - One of Comics Grinder's Best Graphic Novels of 2025 - One of The Comics Journal's Best Comics of 2025
Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them.
Brief description: Peter Kuper wrote the Eisner Award-winning Ruins and critically acclaimed adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, and Metamorphosis. He founded the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, writes and draws Mad magazine's Spy vs. Spy, and taught Harvard University's first class dedicated to graphic novels and comics.
Review Quotes: Peter Kuper's stunning Insectopolis takes readers on a journey, traveling through time and space in the company of Earth's most underappreciated beings. Each page is lush with closely observed detail: the iridescence of a beetle's exoskeleton, the velvety wing of a moth, the shadow cast by a single ant. Visually dazzling and rich with information, it is a book that will change the way you see the world and the trillions of tiny creatures scuttling and buzzing all around us.--Lauren Redniss, author of Oak Flat and Radioactive