![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bagge’s work inhabits American culture like no other writer or artist, and it shouldn’t surprise that several high-profile, mainstream-friendly, pop culture phenomena echo his work from all three periods. Between Neat Stuff and the two very different halves of his series Hate, Bagge skewered the occupational frustrations and false family values of the Reagan/Bush ’80s, the aimless, youthful energy of the early ’90s and the fussy ambivalence permeating the end of the millennium. “Cartoonist” may be too limiting - one can make a case that Bagge is one of the great figures in American comedy during that same period. Fiore called Peter Bagge “the outsider with an entertainer’s instincts,” as good a description as any for one of the most popular, influential and, oddly, underappreciated cartoonists of the last two decades. From the TCJ Archives The Peter Bagge Interviewįrom The Comics Journal #206 (August 1998) Neat Stuff #1 (July 1985) ![]()
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