Buddy Does Seattle: 0 (Hate) - Softcover

Bagge, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560976233 ISBN 13: 9781560976233

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2012

Synopsis

The legendary Seattle stories from Hate comics that defined a generation. The Harvey Award-winning cartoonist Peter Bagge remains one of the comics' industry's great crossover successes of the past decade, having sold more comics than any underground cartoonist through the 1990s to the present. After editing R. Crumb's Weirdo magazine in the mid-'80s and then creating the Bradley family within the pages his first comic book series, Neat Stuff , Bagge decided to take the Bradleys' alienated and pessimistic teenage son, Buddy, and move him to Seattle (where Bagge lived) to star in a new series called Hate. The rest is comic book history. Hate became the best-selling "alternative" comic book of the 1990s at the same time that Seattle found itself in the eye of a media hurricane. With its satirical depiction of twentysomething life in Seattle, Hate became one of the defining voices of not only the Seattle "grunge" scene, but all of Generation X...

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Review:

Sheer genius.

Devastatingly accurate.

American satirical cartooning at its most inventively hilarious.

Peter Bagge is the funniest cartoonist in existence. Part of the secret of his humor comes from our shock at seeing people act the way people really do, rather than this whitewashed portrayal of so-called average people that we see in modern television and movies. The situations Peter creates for his characters are gripping, hilarious and bitingly honest. His drawing style is completely original and would be funny on its own, even without his great stories. This kind of perfect blend of art and humor is what we are all striving for.--John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy

Synopsis:

THE LEGENDARY SEATTLE STORIES FROM HATE COMICS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION This is the first time the entire Seattle arc from the pages of Hate appears under one cover. Bagge's characters are some of the most fully realised in comics - Buddy, the slacker anti-hero, Valerie, Buddy's Prozac-normalised ex, Lisa, his masochistic, worm-eating latest flame, Stinky, his selfish, venereal-warted roommate, and George Cecil Hamilton III, the resident "intellectual", who sits in his room scribbling depressive arcane into his notebook. Bagge's cartooning aids their cause, with one of the most idiosyncratic and inspiredly elastic and cartoony drawing styles in comics history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1560976233
• ISBN 13: 9781560976233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340