Peter Bagge

Peter Bagge is an American comics artist and creator of Hate,

Related Topics:
Comics - Hate

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Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, and Sweatshop. His stories often use black humored prose and wildly cartoonish art to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class Americans, especially youth.

Related Topics:
Neat Stuff - Martini Baton - Sweatshop

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He was born in Peekskill, New York. In the mid-'70s he briefly attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. He edited Weirdo from 1983 to 1986.

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'Hate', his best known work, became popular within the grunge rock movement among people who were not comics fans.

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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 less edgy, and it's published by mainstream publisher DC Comics.

Related Topics:
Alternative comics - Comics - DC Comics

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In 2005, Bagge produced a new 6-part series, Apocalypse Nerd, published by Dark Horse.

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Peter Bagge lives in Seattle, contributes to Reason and MAD Magazine and pens the coveted "Adventures of Batboy" for the Weekly World News.

Related Topics:
Reason - MAD Magazine - Weekly World News

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