Michael Kupperman is an American cartoonist, illustrator and comedy writer, based in New York City. Kupperman created comics and strips for various magazines and anthologies in the 90's. Many were collected in the book Snake'N'Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret (2000). Since 2005 Kupperman has published his own comic anthological series Tales Designed to Thrizzle through Fantagraphics Books. In particular, the story Moon 1969: The True Story of the 1969 Moon Launch, first appeared in Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2 Issue 8, won an Eisner Award in 2013. His longer comic stories include the humorous Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010 (2011) and the graphic novel All The Answers (2018), a bio of Kupperman's father as a child celebrity in the 1940s.