Sweatshop - Softcover

Bagge, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606998129 ISBN 13: 9781606998120

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2015

Synopsis

Mel Bowling is the unhappy, out-of-touch creator of a very bad daily comic strip called Freddy Ferret. He spends most of his time listening to Rush Limbaugh and coming up with horrible catchphrases for his merchandise, while his 'sweatshop' team of artists do all the hard work. Sweatshop incorporates the radically inventive styles of such comics luminaries as Stephen DeStefano (Popeye) and Johnny Ryan (Prison Pit). Originally published by DC Comics in 2003 but never collected until now, this is a key work from one of the most under-appreciated comic voices.

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Review:

Multiple-award winner Bagge brings a tense, frantic-paced underground-comic style to this colorful, text-heavy anthology about the workplace. Anyone who has a job can relate to this comedy. ... Young adults to seniors will certainly be amused...when they aren't cringing.--Russell Miller

The series hits its targets' bull's-eyes with unerring precision... it's good, nearly forgotten work from one of the most significant cartoonists of his generation.--Tim O'Neil

About the Author:

Peter Bagge created Hate, one of the best-selling and most formative comic book series of the '90s. Born in New York in 1957, after graduating from the School of Visual Arts, Bagge contributed to and, along with R. Crumb, edited the underground anthology Weirdo. Since then Bagge's numerous original graphic novels and collections of comics have won him two Harvey Awards (one for Best Cartoonist in 1991), an Inkpot Award, and garnered six Eisner Award nominations. His social commentary cartoons run in the magazine Reason, and his recent biography of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is critically acclaimed. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1606998129
• ISBN 13: 9781606998120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152