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Peter Bagge

Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Hate Annual #9	Peter Bagge	Fantagraphics	Hate	$4.50 ($4.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Join Buddy, Lisa and the gang for their first (and best) full length feature in quite awhile. At last, Lisa's teen years are revealed, as the Bradley clan takes a trip back to Seattle (and back in time) to her ancestral home on a visit to her aged parents – the first time for Buddy. Secrets galore are revealed in this naked portrait of family dysfunction delivered as only P. Bagge can.
Other Lives	Peter Bagge	Vertigo		$22.22 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	OK, while this one may not be the one you've been waiting for, the near simultaneous release of new graphic novels by Dan Clowes and Pete Bagge (on top of last month's Hernandez Brothers love fest) has us remembering the days twenty years back when Bagge and Clowes were much more closely associated in the the minds of the comics reading population than is the case today (although the fact that Other Lives sports a lone front cover blurb from Clowes demonstrates that a link between them nevertheless remains). Unlike Clowes, Bagge has eschewed formal inventiveness in his art and has instead continued to employ his personal and highly expressive comics language to tell twisted tales of (more or less) everyday people. But, like Clowes, Bagge continues to focus on harnessing his cartooning skills to mine the rich vein of his unique and original comics language in the service of delineating character. In Other Lives he has crafted an elaborate plot that explores the fungibility of individual identity in the internet age and that demonstrates the deformative effects of secrets, lies and Second Lives™. It is an assignment which, when you stop to think about it, is one that comics is ideally suited for.
The Best American Comics 2009	Dash Shaw, Koren Shadmi, David Sandlin, Ron Regé and more ...	Houghton Mifflin	Best American	$20.00 ($22.95 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Charles Burns Well, Crumb is a tough act to follow, but we'll give it a shot with this star-studded anthology filled with the best and the brightest from the last twelve months of comics, as judged by Charles Burns. In a book like this, we feel that the contributor list says it best: Doug Allen, Peter Bagge, Gabrielle Bell, Matt Broersma, Daniel Clowes, Al Columbia, Robert Dennis Crumb, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Gilbert Hernandez, Kevin Huizenga, Ben Katchor, Kaz, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Michael Kupperman, Jason Lutes, Tony Millionaire, Jerry Moriarty, Anders Nilsen, Gary Panter, Laura Park, Mimi Pond, Ron Regé, David Sandlin, Koren Shadmi, Dash Shaw, Art Spiegelman, Ted Stearn, Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Dan Zettwoch. 'Nuff said. Well, actually, we can't help but add that while the material contained in this anthology is absolutely fabulous, the quality of its reproduction is, mysteriously, not up to the same standard as the three previous volumes in this series, which were excellent in that department. This shouldn't stop anyone from picking up this fine volume, but it is worrisome. Let's hope that this was a one time aberration and that next year we'll find the fine folks at Houghton Mifflin have figured out what went wrong and put things in the production department back on track.
Everybody is Stupid Except For Me: And Other Astute Observations	Peter Bagge	Fantagraphics		$15.00 ($16.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Here it is, at last the awful truth is revealed: the wages of a punk rock 'n' comics life are... crotchety middle-aged libertarianism. Well, at least in the case of one P. Bagge. Read it and weep – or laugh – or, most likely, both: you won't know how you react until you actually confront these four color comics on the printed page. Are you ready? Do you think you can take it? Fantagraphics sez: Fans of Peter Bagge's Hate comic may not realize he's been contributing comic-strip opinion pieces to Reason magazine for the last several years... finally collected in this volume. Although a libertarian, Bagge is hardly dogmatic, and most of the pieces undermine traditional party lines in favor of a rather personal, rational and informed take on hot-button issues: Favorite topics include the erosion of our civil liberties, ongoing boondoggles of the American public, the Iraq war, politicians both in general and in particular, and the conservative/religious war on sex. Each piece features Bagge himself front and center as the puzzled, indignant, or deeply conflicted everyman-on-the-street trying to make sense of this 21st century.
I Saw You	Austin English, Keith Knight, Kazimir Strzepek, Joey Sayers and more ...	Three Rivers Press		$11.75 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Yes, it's a comics anthology entirely consisting of comics inspired by "real-life" missed connection ads posted on Craigslist. These short tales range from sad to pathetic to depressing to funny to deranged to impossible-to-describe. An astonishing 98 artists contributed to this anthology, including – but not limited to – Sarah Oleksyk, Jesse Reklaw, Sam Henderson, Peter Bagge, Liz Prince, Shannon Wheeler, Laura Park, Jeffrey Brown, Keith Knight, Elijah Brubaker, Greg Means, Gabrielle Bell, Alec Longstreth and Aaron Renier. If nothing else, this massive array of talent testifies to the universality of Craigslist. This book probably has something important to say about interpersonal relationships in the internet era, if we can only figure out what it is...
Bizarro World	Jaime Hernandez, Peter Bagge, Craig Thompson, Dylan Horrocks and more ...	DC		$26.95 ($29.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	DC lets its proprietary guard down for a contained barrage of absurdity; allowing its audience a glimpse at the super-id that lies beneath the super-ego of its stable of heroes. This long awaited sequel to the popular Bizarro Comics is a veritable who's who of the indy comics world. Starting off with a cover by Locas maestro, Jaime Hernandez, the line-up inside includes Rick Altergbott, Peter Bagge, Ariel Bourdeaux, Ivan Brunetti, Eddie Campbell, Dave Cooper (in a ten-page opus featuring Super Girl and Wonder Woman), Leela Corman, Evan Dorkin, Ben Dunn, Sarah Dyer, Phil Elliot, Hunt Emerson, Asaf & Tomer Hanuka, Gilbert Hernandez, Dylan Horrocks, James Kochalka, Michael Kupperman (he's in his element here), Roger Langridge, Tony Millionaire (with a very gothic Batman), Harvey Pekar teams up with Dean Haspiel, Craig Thompson, Pittsburgh's own Don Simpson -- even the French team of Philippe Dupuy & Charles Berberian! And many more. Fab fan fun.
Buddy Does Seattle	Peter Bagge	Fantagraphics	Hate	$12.70 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Collecting the first fifteen issues of Hate, P. Bagge's misanthropic masterpiece -- all of which were set in Seattle -- this 336 page volume defines an era. It's a true classic of comics and it's a bargain: this edition prices out to less than a dollar a comic, less than half the cost of the original comics; a third of the price of the previous cost of purchasing these issues in collected form!
Private Stash: A Pin-Up Girl Portfolio by 20 Cartoonists	Adrian Tomine, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez and more ...	Buenaventura Press		$22.00 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This one is an attempt to be the last word in fetish object. Playing on the trope of arrested adolescent sexuality stereotypically identified with the bagging-and-boarding fanboy set of which more than a few of these participants are graduates, Private Stash starts out with a squarebound translucent case that contains -- once you've struggled to remove it from this secure enclosure without damaging it -- a clever two-layer illustrated wraparound slipcase portrait of all twenty contributors by Rick Altergott (displaying his Mort Drucker and Wally Wood chops to full effect) which opens to reveal a 20 panel accordian-print that opens (to over ten feet!) to reveal the wet-dream girls of a fairly astounding array of talent: R. Crumb, Dan Clowes, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Charles Burns, Gary Panter, Peter Bagge, Adrian Tomine, Kim Deitch, Tony Millionaire, Richard Sala, Ivan Brunetti, Ron Regé,Jr., Dan Zettwoch, Rick Altergott, Jonathan Bennett, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Mitch O'Connell and Archer Prewitt (It's too bad they couldn't get Chris Ware on board with this one, but then again, his fantasy might be too much for the rest of us to handle...).
Buddy Does Jersey	Peter Bagge	Fantagraphics		$12.70 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Forward, in comics, by Johnny Ryan. Subtitled, "The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from 'Hate' Comics, Vol. II (1994 - '98)" this 352 page book finishes what Buddy Does Seattle began, namely collecting the all 30 issues of Bagge's run of Hate. A definitive -- and caustically funny -- account of the coming of age of the 1990s Alt. scene, Hate -- picking up where Bagge's initial comics project, Neat Stuff, left off -- chronicled Buddy's trek from his parents' suburban New Jersey home to the burgeoning Seattle scene and then back again. This volume contains the entirety of the "back again" part which originally appeared in Hate #16 - 30. Starting off with Buddy and his gal pal Lisa getting off the Turnpike and following their ever whackier hi-jinx -- and those of their splendid and seedy supporting cast -- ending with them... well, that would be giving it away. Suffice it to say that these comics are the single truest depiction of the demographic they represent that has yet to be produced in any medium. And, it features a long introduction by Bagge describing (for the first time) how the stories in this book reflected events in his own life. If you have yet to get around to reading these comics, now there's simply no excuse.;
Comics Introspective: Peter Bagge #1	Peter Bagge	TwoMorrows Publishing		$15.00 ($16.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Aging indy comics crank P. Bagge gets the treatment in this TwoMorrows publication that is filled with old, new and rare artwork along with brand new interviews with and commentary on the one and only Mr. Bagge. I guess this means Pete is now officially part of the comic book mainstream. Or does it?

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