Peter Bagge
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Peter Bagge (pronounced /bag/, as in 'Plastic Bag') (born December 11, 1957) is a US comics artist and creator of Buddy Bradley, Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, and Sweatshop. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. In recent years Bagge has concentrated more on political and social commentary.
Peter Bagge was born in 1957 in Peekskill, New York.
Bagge briefly attended the School of Visual Arts in New York in the mid-1970s.
From 1983 to 1986, Bagge edited Weirdo magazine, while cartooning Neat Stuff, a wild miscellany that introduced such memorable characters as Girly-Girl, Junior, Studs Kirby, The Bradleys, and Buddy Bradley.
Hate, Bagge's most well-known comic series, was popular among grunge rock fans, perhaps because it satirized their "alternative" culture.
Sweatshop, published by DC Comics, was produced, unlike early issues of Hate, with the help of a team. Some critics believe the results were too "mainstream" and less "edgy".
In 2005 Bagge began Apocalypse Nerd a comic about two average, urban males dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the Pacific Northwest. Three issues of an announced six have been published as of 2006.
Recent publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations and comics include suck.com, Reason, MAD Magazine, and the Weekly World News, with the strip "Adventures of Batboy".
Peter Bagge lives in Seattle.
[edit] External links
- Peter Bagge.com - Official Peter Bagge's Hate (and other Neat Stuff) website
- Peter Bagge's comics for Reason
- Interview with Peter Bagge - Interview with Peter Bagge on twohandedman.com.
- Interview with Top Two Three Films
- Audio interview with Peter Bagge from the Comic Book Haters podcast
