March 4, 2019
Alternative comic creator Peter Bagge is best known for the ‘90s comic series Hate, featuring the semi-autobiographical anti-hero Buddy Bradley, and whose ad- ventures have been collected in two volumes: Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey, both from Fantagraphics. Prior to Hate, Bagge wrote and illustrated the comic book series Neat Stuff (Fantagraphics), and has since written two humor titles for DC: Yeah! and Sweatshop.
Bagge has also created three graphic novels: Reset, Apocalypse Nerd (Dark Horse), and Other Lives (DC/Vertigo). The journalistic strips Bagge has done for Reason Magazine has also been collected into a book entitled Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me (Fantagraphics). More recently, Bagge has written and drawn three full length biographical comics, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story, and the soon to be released Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story (all from Drawn and Quarterly), as well as a collection of short biographical strips entitled Founding Fathers Funnies (Dark Horse). Bagge is also a long-time contributor of both MAD and Reason Magazine, and has written and drawn satirical one-shot titles for Marvel comics. Peter Bagge lives in Tacoma, WA, with his wife Joanne.
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