Peter Bagge (born December 11, 1957 in
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) is an
AmericanThe people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
cartoonistA cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
. He is the creator of
Buddy BradleyHarold "Buddy" William Bradley Jr. generally referred to as Buddy Bradley is a comic book character created by Peter Bagge and featured in several of his comic books, most notably Hate and Neat Stuff...
,
HateHate is a semi-autobiographical comic book by writer-artist Peter Bagge. First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of the best-selling alternative comics of the 1990s, at its height selling 30,000 copies an issue...
,
Neat StuffNeat Stuff is an American alternative comic book series created by Peter Bagge and published by Fantagraphics. It ran from 1985 to 1989 for sixteen issues. Each takes the form of a series of short stories featuring different sets of characters, although some issues feature full-length stories...
,
Martini Baton, and
Sweatshop,
Apocalypse NerdApocalypse Nerd is a six-issue comic book limited series created by Peter Bagge and published by Dark Horse Comics.-Publication history:The six issue miniseries ran between 2005 and 2007...
and
Other Lives. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of
middle-class AmericanThe American middle class is a social class in the United States. While the concept is typically ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use, contemporary social scientists have put forward several, more or less congruent, theories on the American middle class...
youth. He won a two
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s in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on
Hate. In recent years Bagge has expressed his
libertarianLibertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
views in features for
ReasonReason is a libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation. The magazine has a circulation of around 60,000 and was named one of the 50 best magazines in 2003 and 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.- History :...
.
Biography
Part of a family of five kids, Bagge grew up in the New York City suburbs. Bagge's father was in the military and Bagge has talked about how his Catholic household was the scene of "lots of drunken fights about money. We were the weirdo outcast kids of the neighborhood. I couldn't get away fast enough." Moving to New York City in the mid-1970s, Bagge briefly attended the
School of Visual ArtsThe School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
before dropping out to work on
Punk MagazinePunk is a music magazine/fanzine created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn and "resident punk" Legs McNeil in 1975. Its use of the term "punk rock," coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier, led to its worldwide acceptance as the definition for the new bands that were...
.
Early career
Other cartoonists associated with
Punk were
John HolmstromJohn Holmstrom is an American underground cartoonist and writer. He is best known for illustrating the covers of the Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, as well as his characters Bosko and Joe .As the founding editor of Punk Magazine at the age of 21 in late 1975, Holmstrom's work...
, Ken Weiner, and Bruce Carleton; and Bagge worked on his cartooning with them and also
J.D. KingJ.D. King is an American artist best known for his commercial art illustrations for companies including Absolut Vodka, Atlantic Records, Condé Nast Publications, Sony, and others.-Biography:J.D...
and Kaz. During this period, the young cartoonists also were the beneficiaries of "useful advice" from
Art SpiegelmanArt Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
.
In addition to
Punk, Bagge contributed to the notorious underground paper
Screw; when
Punk folded in 1980, Bagge and Holstrom co-published
Comical Funnies. Bagge sent copies of
Comical Funnies to underground comics legend
Robert CrumbRobert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...
, who liked his work enough to publish a few of Bagge's strips in the anthology Crumb was editing,
WeirdoWeirdo was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb and published by Last Gasp from 1981 to 1993.Weirdo served as a "low art" counterpoint to its contemporary highbrow RAW...
. Eventually, in 1983, Crumb passed on the editorial reins of
Weirdo to Bagge, who edited it for three years (and one guest issue in 1989).
With Fantagraphics Books - Neat Stuff and Hate
Beginning in 1985, Bagge hooked up with alternative comics publisher Fantagraphics to produce his first solo title
Neat StuffNeat Stuff is an American alternative comic book series created by Peter Bagge and published by Fantagraphics. It ran from 1985 to 1989 for sixteen issues. Each takes the form of a series of short stories featuring different sets of characters, although some issues feature full-length stories...
, a wild miscellany that introduced such memorable characters as Girly-Girl, Junior, Studs Kirby, The Bradleys, and
Buddy BradleyHate is a semi-autobiographical comic book by writer-artist Peter Bagge. First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of the best-selling alternative comics of the 1990s, at its height selling 30,000 copies an issue...
.
Neat Stuff ran until 1989.
HateHate is a semi-autobiographical comic book by writer-artist Peter Bagge. First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of the best-selling alternative comics of the 1990s, at its height selling 30,000 copies an issue...
(1990–1998), Bagge's most well-known comic series, was popular among
grunge rockGrunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...
fans, perhaps because it
satirizedSatire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
their
"alternative" cultureAlternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures...
. After ending
Hate as a regular title, Bagge has produced a series of
Hate Annuals.
DC and Marvel Comics
In a radical departure, Bagge created and authored an all-ages comic series for DC Comics called
Yeah!, about an all-girl rock band, and featuring art by
Gilbert HernandezGilberto Hernández, born February 1, 1957, in Oxnard, California, usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also known by the nickname Beto , is an American comics writer/artist...
. The series lasted for 9 issues, from 1999 to 2000.
Sweatshop, published by
DC ComicsDC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
in 2003, was produced, unlike early issues of
Hate, with the help of an art team.
Sweatshop, ironically, is about a
cartoonistA cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
who hits it big. The series was short-lived, ending after six issues.
In 2002, Bagge did his version of
Spider-ManSpider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
for
Marvel ComicsMarvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
. He followed this up with a
HulkThe Hulk is a fictional character, a superhero in the . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 ....
comic (title
The Incorrigible Hulk) which was completed but never released due to a management change at Marvel Comics at the time. From August 2009, The Incorrigible Hulk finally released in serialised form for
Marvel KnightsMarvel Knights is an imprint of Marvel Worldwide, Inc. that contains material taking place within the mainstream Marvel Universe .-Production:...
's relaunched
Strange TalesStrange Tales is the name of several comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. It introduced the features "Doctor Strange" and "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.", and was a showcase for the science fiction/suspense stories of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, and for the...
mini-series.
2010 saw the release of a graphic novel for DC called
Second Lives.
Apocalypse Nerd
From 2005–2007, Bagge worked on
Apocalypse NerdApocalypse Nerd is a six-issue comic book limited series created by Peter Bagge and published by Dark Horse Comics.-Publication history:The six issue miniseries ran between 2005 and 2007...
, a comic published by
Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
about two average, urban males dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the
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. Backup stories in
Apocalypse Nerd featured historically researched anecdotal tales of America's "
founding fathersThe Founding Fathers of the United States of America were political leaders and statesmen who participated in the American Revolution by signing the United States Declaration of Independence, taking part in the American Revolutionary War, establishing the United States Constitution, or by some...
". The final issue of the six-issue series was published in 2007. A
trade paperbackIn comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...
collection was released in 2008.
Illustration work
Recent publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations and comics include
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,
ReasonReason is a libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation. The magazine has a circulation of around 60,000 and was named one of the 50 best magazines in 2003 and 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.- History :...
,
MAD Magazine, and the
Weekly World NewsThe Weekly World News was a supermarket tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical. Its characteristic black-and-white covers have become...
, with the strip "Adventures of Batboy". In January 2008, Bagge contributed illustrations to
toonlettoonlet is a free website that allows users to create their own cartoon characters and webcomics. Founded in 2007 and opened to public beta in 2008, toonlet differs from other webcomic building tools in that comics are published on the site similar to forum or blog posts, meaning they can be...
, an
onlineONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
comic construction web site.
Starting with the February 2009 issue, the popular science and technology magazine Discover Magazine has featured a continuing series of History of Science comic strips created by Peter Bagge. Bagge’s comics feature key characters and events from scientific history.
Bagge is the subject of the first volume of
TwoMorrows PublishingTwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina...
's new
Comics Introspective series of books, published in 2007.
Reason magazine
In 2003, Bagge became a contributing writer with the
libertarianLibertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
magazine
ReasonReason is a libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation. The magazine has a circulation of around 60,000 and was named one of the 50 best magazines in 2003 and 2004 by the Chicago Tribune.- History :...
. Over the years, he has published both prose and comics pieces in their pages. 2009 saw the release of a collection of Bagge's Reason work called
Everybody is Stupid Except for Me (And Other Astute Observations).
Animation
Bagge made a series of
animatedAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
commercials for
Round Table PizzaRound Table Pizza is a large chain of pizza parlors in the western United States. The company's headquarters are located in Concord, California.The company slogan for many years has been "The Last Honest Pizza".- History :...
.
In 2001 Bagge collaborated with comedian
Dana GouldDana John Gould is an American comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts. His upbringing and his extended family lent themselves to his stand-up routine, which has been seen on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central, among other places.-Career:After high school, he studied...
to produce the
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Internet cartoon
Rock 'N' Roll Dad. The four-episode series premiered on
Icebox.comicebox.com is a web television animation company founded in 1999 by Jonathan Collier, Howard Gordon, Rob LaZebnik, Scott Rupp and Tal Vigderson. The founders stated that the company was created to capitalize on the inherent "freedom of the medium" which they felt stifled creativity of writers due...
.
Music
Bagge played drums and sang in the band The Action Suits, which also includes
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,
Andy SchmidtPeter Andrewes Schmidt is a comic book editor and writer. He is best known for his work at Marvel and is now editing and writing at other companies.-Biography:...
, and producer
Steve FiskSteve Fisk is a Washington-based audio engineer, record producer and musician.Fisk joined the instrumental rock band Pell Mell in 1982. With vocalist Shawn Smith, he formed Pigeonhed, which released its first album in 1993....
. Their sole CD was released in 2007.
Bagge plays guitar and sings for his current band, Can You Imagine, which features Steve Fisk on Keyboards.
Personal life
Bagge lives in
SeattleSeattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
with his wife Joanne (who contributes coloring work on his art).
Art style
Bagge's signature elastic, kinetic art style is a product of his love for 1940s Warner Brothers cartoons (especially those directed by
Bob ClampettRobert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil...
). Bagge has said that he "always wanted to capture that sense of movement and exaggeration in a static format. In retrospect this sounds like a futile thing to attempt, but I think I wound up pulling it off better than I ever thought I would."
Politics
Bagge has long been openly libertarian in his politics, and many of his comics feature references to this. He is a left wing libertarian who was opposed to the
Iraq War and critical of George W Bush. Bagge voted for
LibertarianThe Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...
presidential candiadate
Harry BrowneHarry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000....
in
2000The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President....
and
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John KerryJohn Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
in
2004The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...
because he "wanted to fire
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." When asked who he was voting for in the
2008 electionThe United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...
, he wrote: "If the polls in my home state are close:
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(
McCainJohn Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
is simply too incompetent these days to be president). If not, I'll make a protest vote for
BarrRobert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. is a former federal prosecutorand a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. Barr attained national prominence as one of the leaders of the impeachment of...
." In a follow up article by Reason, Bagge stated, "I wound up voting for Barr, and I stand by THAT vote more now than I did then!"
Bagge collected his work for
Reason expressing his Libertarian views in the book "
Everybody is Stupid Except me: and Other Astute Observations."
Bagge has continued with his strips covering Libertarian issues in Hate Annual.
Quotes
R. Crumb:
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:
Comic books
- The Wacky World of Peter Bagge/Ken Weiner (1982 FlipBook)
- Martini Baton (Fantagraphics, 1993) with Dave Carrino
- Neat Stuff
Neat Stuff is an American alternative comic book series created by Peter Bagge and published by Fantagraphics. It ran from 1985 to 1989 for sixteen issues. Each takes the form of a series of short stories featuring different sets of characters, although some issues feature full-length stories...
(Fantagraphics, 1985–1989) #1-15
- Hate (Fantagraphics, 1990–1998) #1-30
- The Bradleys (Fantagraphics, 1999–2000) #1–6 — stories about the Bradleys from Neat Stuff and elsewhere
- Junior and Friends (Fantagraphics, 2000–2001) #1–6 — non-Bradley stories from Neat Stuff and elsewhere
- Hate Annual (Fantagraphics, 2001–2007) #1-7
- Sweatshop (DC, 2003) #1–6
- Apocalypse Nerd
Apocalypse Nerd is a six-issue comic book limited series created by Peter Bagge and published by Dark Horse Comics.-Publication history:The six issue miniseries ran between 2005 and 2007...
(Dark Horse, 2005–2007) #1–6
Collected editions
- The Bradleys (Fantagraphics, 1992, ISBN 1-56097-576-8) — collects stories from Neat Stuff
- Hey, Buddy! (Fantagraphics, 1993, ISBN 1-56097-113-4) — collects Hate #1–5
- Buddy the Dreamer (Fantagraphics, 1994, ISBN 1-56097-154-1) — collects Hate #6–10
- Fun with Buddy + Lisa: Volume III of the Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" (Fantagraphics, 1995, ISBN 1-56097-175-4) — collects Hate #11–#15
- Buddy Go Home: "Hate" Collection Volume IV (Fantagraphics, 1998, ISBN 1-56097-276-9) — collects Hate #16–#20
- Buddy's Got Three Moms: "Hate" Collection Volume V (Fantagraphics, 1999, ISBN 1-56097-335-8) — collects Hate #21–#25
- Buddy Bites the Bullet (Fantagraphics, 2001, ISBN 1-56097-415-X) — collects Hate #26–#30
- Buddy Does Seattle: The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics, Vol. I, 1990-94 (Fantagraphics, 2005, ISBN 1-56097-623-3) — collects Hate #1-#15
- Buddy Does Jersey (Fantagraphics, 2007, ISBN 1-56097-837-6) — collects Hate #16-#30
- Apocalypse Nerd (Dark Horse, 2008, ISBN 1-59307-902-8)
- Everyone is Stupid Except for Me (Fantagraphics, 2009, ISBN 1-60699-158-2) - collects strips from Reason
Monographs
- Irving, Chris. Comics Introspective Volume One: Peter Bagge (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2007). ISBN 1-893905-83-7
Awards
Bagge won the 1991
Harvey AwardThe Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and founded by Gary Groth, President of the publisher Fantagraphics, are given for achievement in comic books. The Harveys were created as part of a successor to the Kirby Awards which were discontinued after 1987.The Harvey Awards are...
for Best Cartoonist. In addition,
Hate won the 1991 Harvey Award for Best New Series.
Bagge was presented with an
Inkpot AwardThe Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly multigenre fan convention, commonly known as...
at San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 in recognition of his achievments in comics.
He was nominated for Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards several times:
- 1991 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Best Writer/Artist: (Hate [Fantagraphics])
- 1992 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Best Writer: (Hate [Fantagraphics])
- 1993 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Best Writer: (Hate [Fantagraphics])
- 1993 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Best Writer/Artist: (Hate [Fantagraphics])
- 1995 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Nominee - Best Colorist: (for Hate [Fantagraphics])
External links
Interviews
- Comic Book Haters audio podcast #1
- Comic Book Haters audio podcast #2
- ifpthendirt handwritten interview
- Heater, Brian. Ink 19 (May 2005)
- Heater, Brian. Daily Cross Hatch (Feb. 20, 2007)
- Heater, Brian Daily Cross Hatch (Feb. 28, 2007)
- Malcolm, Kevin The Backroom Comics Podcast
The Backroom Comics Podcast is a weekly video podcast and audio podcast focused on comics. It is hosted by Kevin Malcolm, Greg Upton, Pete Greenberg and Jason Doctor. The first episode was released on March 20, 2009...
Episode 32 - Everyone Is Stupid (Oct. 10, 2009)
- Malcolm, Kevin The Backroom Comics Podcast
The Backroom Comics Podcast is a weekly video podcast and audio podcast focused on comics. It is hosted by Kevin Malcolm, Greg Upton, Pete Greenberg and Jason Doctor. The first episode was released on March 20, 2009...
Episode 33 - Origins and Influences (Oct. 13, 2009)
- Miles, Jason http://www.thecomicbooks.com/Audio/10-07-24-SD-PeterBagge.mp3 audio interview from the San Diego Comicon, 2010
- Reason.tv - Interview by Nick Gillespie (Sept 2011)