Managing to get away from his illustration work for the New York Times, Time Magazine and others, Peter Kuper is back in comics form with a new pantomime graphic novel.  Like Eric Drooker (Flood), his on and off cohort at WWIII Illustrated,  Kuper's longer work deftly employs the strengths inherent in the shorthand of visual storytelling to work in the allegorical form.  In Sticks and Stones he presents us with an epic fable of empire gone wrong.  Three Rivers Press • 128 pages • B & W and Color