'All The Answers' Can't Answer Its Central Questions — And That's Just Fine
Cartoonist Michael Kupperman's new memoir recounts his attempts to get at a great mystery in his father's life — his childhood in the spotlight as a contestant on the Quiz Kids radio show.
by Glen Weldon
May 19, 2018
3 minutes
Michael Kupperman is a very funny guy.
He didn't get that from his dad.
Kupperman comics — many of which gleefully slam together characters and media that should have nothing to do with each other, then comb through the resulting iconographic rubble to find bizarrely hilarious affinities — have appeared in scores of magazines, newspapers and books. He's written five books of his own that adopt that same approach, resulting in mixed-media mashups of vintage photography enlivened by Kupperman's expressive linework and
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