Peter Bagge
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Peter Bagge (pronounced /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 exaggeratedly "cartoonish" art and dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class Americans, especially youth.
Overview
Peter Bagge was born in 1957 in Peekskill, New York.
In the mid-1970s, he briefly attended the School of Visual Arts in New York.
From 1983 to 1986, he edited the Weirdo magazine.
Started in 1990, his comics series Hate (published by Fantagraphics) is his best-known work; it became popular within the grunge rock movement among people who were not comics fans, in part because the comic was a satire of "alternative" youth culture.
One of the most successful of the alternative comics creators, Bagge has recently adopted some customs of mainstream comics – comics produced by a "team". The subject matter of his latest effort, Sweatshop, is considered less edgy and published by mainstream publisher DC Comics.
In 2005, Bagge started Apocalypse Nerd, a new 6-part series for Dark Horse Comics ; as of 2006, only two issues of have been released.
Peter Bagge lives in Seattle, contributes to Reason and MAD Magazine and pens "Adventures of Batboy" for the Weekly World News.
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External link
- Peter Bagge.com - Official Peter Bagge's Hate (and other Neat Stuff) websitefr:Peter Bagge