Yeah! - Softcover

Bagge, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606994123 ISBN 13: 9781606994122

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Synopsis

• Co-created by comics living legends Peter Bagge (Hate!) and Gilbert Hernandez (Love & Rockets), Yeah! is a unique masterpiece of all-ages fun: it’s a girl-centered comic book that appeals to girls (and even their parents)! Originally published as a nine-issue comic book series from 1999-2000 by DC’s Wildstorm imprint, this all-ages gem (approved by the Comics Code Authority, no less!) is collected here for the very first time.
• Krazy (vocals and guitars), Honey (drums), and WooWoo (keyboards) are the members of the pop band Yeah! They’ve achieved intergalactic superstardom on every planet but their own (Earth), where they live in anonymity and suffer indignities in their home of suburban New Jersey. The girls struggle with bad gigs (struggling to win $200 amateur-night contests despite playing to packed crowds of adoring fans on Uranus), aliens who have crushes on them, and rival boy band The Snobs.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Bagge created Hate, one of the best-selling and most formative comic book series of the ’90s. Born in New York in 1957, after graduating from the School of Visual Arts, Bagge contributed to and, along with R. Crumb, edited the underground anthology Weirdo. Since then Bagge's numerous original graphic novels and collections of comics have won him two Harvey Awards (one for Best Cartoonist in 1991), an Inkpot Award, and garnered six Eisner Award nominations. His social commentary cartoons run in the magazine Reason, and his recent biography of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is critically acclaimed. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets.

Review:

“Two indie comics mainstays offer an intergalactic take on Josie and the Pussycats. Yeah! follows the exploits of Krazy, Honey, and Woo Woo, a three-girl rock band who’ve achieved huge success everywhere in the galaxy except for Earth. So the trio trades time between sold out arenas in the far reaches of space and slumming it to amateur showcases around their native New Jersey.”
- Matt White, Publishers Weekly

“...Yeah! is a surprisingly delightful fun fantasy of kicky pop music, weird alien fans, and evil twin competition bands.... Witty, high-spirited, and thoroughly fun, it’s the greatest Saturday morning cartoon adventure that never was.”
- Bully the Little Stuffed Bull, Robot 6

“Unapologetically silly, Yeah! is every bit as fun as it sounds. Hernandez’s vivid, cartoony art is a pleasure, and Bagge packs the script with funny throwaway gags and over-the-top characters. Kids should dig it, and so should anyone looking for a comic with a sense of fun, which has become something of a scarce commodity in recent years.”
- The Onion A.V. Club

“...[T]hese two secret masters of rock fandom and mavericks of cartooning show zest-finesse and feisty satire chronicling the lives lived on the margins of collaborated garage bomp in a series of outrageous stories that could only be true in the music world they’ve personally known...”
- Chris Estey, KEXP

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1606994123
• ISBN 13: 9781606994122
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Thompson Kim