Peter Bagge's Other Stuff - Softcover

Bagge, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606996223 ISBN 13: 9781606996225

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2013

Synopsis

During the 1990s and 2000s, Peter Bagge worked on the seminal Hate comic, but his dozens of shorter stories are now being collected in this riotously anarchic book. Peter Bagge's Other Stuff includes a few lesser-known Bagge characters, including the wacky modern party girl "Lovey," not to mention the self-explanatory "Rock 'N' Roll Dad," starring Murry Wilson and the Beach Boys. But many of the strips are one-off gags or short stories, often with a contemporary satirical slant, including on-site reportage and more. Also: Dick Cheney, The Matrix, and Alien! Bagge is one of the funniest cartoonists of the century (20th or 21st), and this collection shows him at his most free-wheeling and craziest ... 50 times over.

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.

Daniel Clowes is a celebrated graphic novelist, Academy-Award nominated screenwriter, and frequent cover artist for the New Yorker. He lives in Oakland, CA. He is a multi-Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz Award winner, and his papers were recently acquired by the University of Chicago library.

Born in Philadelphia, R. Crumb is the author of numerous comic works and one of the pioneers of underground comics and arguably one of the most famous cartoonists in history. His books include The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb, and many more. He lives in the south of France with his wife, the artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb.

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.

Jaime Hernandez is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning cartoonist and a lifelong Los Angelean.

Alan Moore is a magician and performer, and is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen, for which he won the Hugo Award. He was born in 1953 in Northampton, UK, and has lived there ever since.

Johnny Ryan was born in Boston, MA, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.  He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the Nickelodeon TV series Pig Boat Banana Cricket.

From Booklist:

Ever since Bagge ended his popular Hate series in 1998, he’s been largely concentrating on book-length works, such as Apocalypse Nerd (2008) and Other Lives (2010). Concurrently, he’s been churning out hilarious shorter pieces for magazines, alternative newspapers, and other venues, many of which (as well as some Hate backup strips) are collected here. The pleasing hodgepodge includes multipart sequences featuring Bagge creations like hipster wannabe Lovey and clueless suburbanites Chet and Bunny Leeway (resurrected from Bagge’s 1980s series, Neat Stuff); Bagge-scripted stories drawn by other alt-comics titans, including R. Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, and Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez as well as a story scripted by Alan Moore; graphic reportage and “real-life” biographies of obscure scientists; and “Musical Urban Legends,” ranging from a belligerent Frank Sinatra to a sweetly befuddled Brian Wilson. While his rubbery, exaggerated visual style may be one-note (as effective and appealing as that single note might be), this diverse assortment of work, nearly all of it top-notch, shows that Bagge has plenty of arrows in his artistic quiver. --Gordon Flagg

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1606996223
• ISBN 13: 9781606996225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136