Books by Peter Bagge and Complete Book Reviews

Peter Bagge, Author . Fantagraphics $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-56097-576-2
The art is what readers will notice first about this alternately hilarious and harrowing collection. All members of the Bradley family—Dad, Mother, little brother Butch, young teen Babs and disgruntled high school senior Buddy—have...
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Peter Bagge, Author . Fantagraphics $14.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56097-837-4
The acerbic story of ultimate slacker Buddy Bradley from the pages of Hate concludes in this second compilation volume, originally serialized in color in the 1990s but collected here in black and white. Buddy and girlfriend Lisa leave freewheeling...
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Peter Bagge, Author . Fantagraphics $16.99 (118p) ISBN 978-1-60699-158-9
Bagge made his reputation with the wicked social satire of Hate , but since 2001 he’s also produced these short comics for the libertarian magazine Reason —mostly reported pieces about politics and culture, but also some single-page...
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Peter Bagge, Author . DC/Vertigo $29.99 (135p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1902-4
Bagge (Hate ) again sets his sights on aspects of contemporary human dysfunction, this time focusing on a cast of characters who each hide behind fabricated identities. “Vader Ryderbeck”—né Vladimir Rostov—is a...
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Peter Bagge, Author Fantagraphics Books $12.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-56097-113-9
Bagge ( The Bradleys ) continues to chronicle the misadventures, life experiences and repugnant habits of Buddy Bradley, oldest son of America's most dysfunctional suburban family. Buddy has managed to leave the clammy security of his family in New...
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Peter Bagge, Author Fantagraphics Books $0 (126p) ISBN 978-1-56097-048-4
Bagge's ( The Bradleys ) collection of misfits, nerds and assorted losers represents American satirical cartooning at its most inventively hilarious. He serves up the worst that American suburban ``culture'' has to offer. Junior is a simpleminded...
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Peter Bagge. Drawn and Quarterly, $21.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-77046-126-0
Bagge is perhaps most famous for his slacker character Buddy Bradley, as well as Neat Stuff and Hate, and his recent work in the libertarian magazine Reason. He’s an accomplished cartoonist and a master of satire and black humor, and Margaret Sanger,
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Peter Bagge. D&Q, $21.95 trade paper (104p) ISBN SBN 978-1-77046-269-4
Bagge follows his previous graphic novel, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, with another portrait of an iconoclastic American woman. Raised in an all-black farming town before attending Howard University, Hurston became a celebrated writer and
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Peter Bagge. Drawn and Quarterly, $22.95 (108p) ISBN 978-1-77046-341-7
The idiosyncratic, independent life and work of Rose Wilder Lane—Laura Ingalls Wilder’s conservative daughter—gets its due in this spiky graphic biography by Bagge (Fire! The Zora Neale Hurston Story). Bagge’s affinity for rendering characters as...
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Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, $19.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-60699-412-2
The idea was a bit strange from the beginning: two legendary creators known for their adult slice-of-life portrayals—Bagge (Hate) and Hernandez (Love and Rockets)—teaming up on an all ages, lighthearted, girl-friendly color comic for DC's WildStorm...
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Peter Bagge. Dark Horse, $15.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-61655-003-5
By the time we meet him, comedian and actor Guy Krause has done a stellar job of torpedoing his personal life while wrecking his career. With only dismal prospects in front of him, the abrasive entertainer agrees to serve as the guinea pig in an...
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Peter Bagge et al. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60699-622-5
This volume of previously uncollected one-offs and irregular series (such as the Lovey and Shut-Ins strips) by Bagge (Hate, Buddy Bradley) is mostly hilarious, with a handful of misses. The book’s centerpiece is a 50-page collection of...
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Peter Bagge, Author, Everett True, Introduction by . Fantagraphics $14.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56097-623-3
Collecting the complete Buddy Bradley stories from 1990 to 1994, this volume is an intense and frequently witty blast of Seattle-based slacker dysfunction. The title character is perhaps the most honestly portrayed everyman the medium has ever seen,
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Peter Bagge. Fantagraphics, $19.99 trade paper (124p) ISBN 979-8-8750-0048-5
The anarchic, antisocial Gen Xers of Eisner winner Bagge’s 1990s Hate series squirm through a present-day reunion that’s equal parts raunchy and reflective. Buddy and Lisa, former Seattle slackers with a tumultuous, on-off relationship, now live in...
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