Info on: Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge was born in Peekskill, New York. He studied briefly at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in the mid-'70s. Upon exposure to the work of underground comics, particularly the work of R. Crumb, Bagge plunged into cartooning with a vengeance.
Bagge's distinctive in-your-face illustration style has also appeared on many record and CD covers, and his comics have been featured in political and social commentary magazines like REASON and the website Suck.com. Other comic work includes writing an all ages comic book for DC called "Yeah!" (drawn by Gilbert Hernandez), and more recently "Sweatshop," also for DC, which satirizes the comics industry. He wrote and drew a one-shot satire of Spider-Man for Marvel, and is about to give The Hulk the same treatment. He also writes and draws a weekly comic strip about "Bat Boy" for THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS.
Quotes
"American satirical cartooning at its most inventively hilarious."
-- Publishers Weekly on Hate
"Pete's readers buy an ungodly amount of trendy music."
-- Hate advertiser and Sub-Pop Recordings Founder Bruce Pavitt
"I love Hate!"
-- Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, Life in Hell, and Futurama.
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