News view the news archive 13 May STRANGE TALES Book Out Now A hard cover collection of the Strange Tales mini-series from Marvel is now available. It features both my 3 part HALK story (now seen as one long story as originally intended) AND my long out of print "Megalomaniacal Spider-Man" story from years ago. Hurrah! Order on line here: http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Tales-HC-Paul-Pope/dp/0785146261 14 April New Title!! On Sale Today!! Meet three certified geeks: a self-loathing journalist who has a seemingly normal girlfriend, a conspiracy theorist who still lives with his mother and an unemployed gamer who lives in his car. These strangely likable misfits find that dark personal secrets can sometimes be a virtue in OTHER LIVES, a hilarious original graphic novel by award-winning creator Peter Bagge (Hate). The story also explores people's identities, both real and created, and how the two become confused and conflated through the Internet and role-playing games. Here's the info Buy it here 7 April HATE ANNUAL # 8 In Stores Now! The latest (and very Late) HATE ANNUAL is in stores as of April 7th, 2010. For more info (and to order a copy online) go here: Fantagraphics shop 29 January Another Bagge Podcast! Comedian Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast. Bagge is about 1/3 of the way in. Here's the link: Episode 42 For more info on WTF podcast, go here: http://wtfpod.com/ 20 October Bagge the podcaster? Check out this 2 part podcast: http://www.backroompodcast.com/?p=75 6 October Bagge in MN, Oct. 10th - 11th Attention all Twin-Cities freaks & geeks: I'll be attending this up-coming FallCon, held at the Minnesota Fairgrounds between Mpls and St. Paul this upcoming weekend. So please feel free to show up and spend all your hard-earned money on my useless crap! Hope to see you there! http://midwestcomicbook.com/ 6 September STRANGE TALES #1 In Stores This Week! The first issue of Marvel's new 3 part anthology mini-series, STRANGE TALES, is in comic shops this week. It features my long-delayed "Incorrigible Hulk" story, which has been broken up into 3 parts, with one part in each issue. My original cover will also serve as the cover of ST #2 (see below). This mini-series also features many indy comics superstars, all of whom get to interpret one or more of Marvel's well known characters in their own style. Each issue is also 48 pages long and only $3.99. Quite a deal! 25 June REASON Book Collection Special Offer! My collection of all strips I've done for REASON Magazine, succinctly titled "EVERYBODY IS STUPID EXCEPT FOR ME (AND OTHER ASTUTE OBSERVATIONS)," will be available in stores in early -mid July. However, you can either advance order it through Amazon.com -- OR, if you want a copy RIGHT NOW, you can order it by phone directly from Fantagraphics Books. If you dial (800-657-1100) between now and the end of July they won't charge you postage, so it'll cost you about the same that Amazon charges. DEAL! AND! If you order any of my other books or comics (BUDDY DOES SEATTLE, BUDDY DOES JERSEY, THE BRADLEYS COLLECTION, HATE ANNUAL #1, 4-7, MARTINI BATON, NEAT STUFF #5, 9, 12, 15, and JUNIOR #2-5) at the same time they'll come postage free too. Be sure to remind the nice person taking your order of the no-postage-fees offer! 9 June New T Shirts! The good folks at World of Strange have just made 3 new Bagge T shirts available via the internets! Only $19.99. A steal! Go hear and BUY: http://poeticlicenseprinting.com/artists/bagge.html 23 March Stussy, Discover and other Bagge News Hi! Here's some news: Stussy just released a series of T shirts I designed for them, which can be seen here along with a video interview with yours truly: http://www.stussy.com/march_feature_peterbagge.html I also have been doing a monthly comic strip for DISCOVER Magazine. Each strip features a famous (or not so famous) scientist of yore behaving in the quirky, asperger-y ways that scientists are renowned for (I uploaded a sample strip in the "pics" section of my MySpace page for you to marvel at: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=55578760&albumID=685163&imageID=46252592 ). DISCOVER originally intended to post these strips on their website, but have decided against that, hoping to entice people to subscribe to the pulp version of their wonderful mag instead. To prove that their ploy worked go here: https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/AG/DCR/DCR_New_subpage_093008.jsp?cds_page_id=54545&cds_mag_code=DCR&id=1237479132752&lsid=90781112127031315&vid=1&cds_response_key=I9WM3S Meanwhile, a book collection of my REASON Magazine work (accurately titled "Everyone is Stupid Except for Me") will be coming soon from Fantagraphics, and I'm more than halfway done with a GN I'm working on for DC/Vertigo, which is taking me forever to complete. I don't have the attention span to do these stupid "graphic novels"! Bring back the "floppies," now! Best, -- PB 5 November Calling all Seattle Area Art (AND Music) Lovers! My art (or as some call it, my "art") will be hanging on the walls of Ballard's Tigertail bar and restaurant (http://www.tigertailbar.com/) from Nov 12th to the end of 08. The opening celebration is on Wednesday the 12th, starting at 6 pm. Hope to see you there! Also: My new pop band, gayly named "Can You Imagine?" (http://www.myspace.com/canyouimagine2) will be making it's stage debut at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard this Sunday the 9th at 8pm (We're not listed on their website -- http://www.sunsettavern.com/ -- but we WILL be there as an opening act), and we'll also be playing at the Fantagraphics Store's Anniversary party on Dec. 13th. Hope to see you there as well! 22 June Bagge in Portland OR, June 27th - 28th It'll be an event-clogged weekend in PDX for me this upcoming weekend, all revolving around a 2 day, all-day teaching seminar I'll be holding at the Portland Northwest College of Art on Sat, June 28th and San. June 29th (Jessica Abel, Matt Madden and Daniel Dufford will be teaching courses there all this week as well: http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/news/405/intensely-graphic I also will be signing copies of the APOCALYPSE NERD book collection at Powell's bookstore on Friday the 27th at 7:30 PM: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135869878 On Saturday the 28th at 5pm, I'm scheduled to take part in an "Interactive discussion with comic creators" at the Someday Lounge, though no mention of it is made on their website (http://www.somedaylounge.com/) so attend at your own risk! Right after that, from 7 - 9 pm, the nearby Floating World comic shop will be holding a "closing" party for a group art show featuring work by JR Williams, Mats?!, David Chelsea and myself (we'll all be in attendance except for Mats?!). Floating World's website appears to be down at the moment, but you can get all the info you need from their MySpace Page: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=79938577&blogID=404973306 16 May New T-Shirts, Skateboards from Manik Seattle based skateboard and apparel company Manik has just released a series of 5 skateboard and 3 t shirt designs by me, culled from images from the earliest issues of HATE comics. Am I stuck in 1993 or what?!? Right now the only images I can show you of them are these tiny, fuzzy images, since Manik is currently working on the Store section of their website. But write to info@manikskateboards.com in the meantime and ask for a free catalog. 5 May 3-Pager for Turner Movie Classics Website: http://www.tcm.com/2008/underground/lostscenes.jsp 1 April New Reason Strip on Ron Paul Reason magazine just posted my latest feature for them on their website. This one's about the New Hampshire primaries in general, and Ron Paul in particular. It can be seen here: http://www.reason.com/news/show/125749.html 28 March 2008 APOCALYPSE NERD Book Collection In Stores Now! The complete, square-bound edition of my 6-part tragic-comic mini-series, "Apocalypse Nerd," is now available in better books and comic shops everywhere, as well as online from TFAW.com: http://www.tfaw.com/Profile/___13-281?dhrf=JnNzdHJpbmc9UGV0ZXIgQmFnZ2U= 120 pages for only $13.95! A steal! 20 February 2008 New Oscars related Cartoon for Vanity Fair.Com Shemp fans, rejoice! Here's a low budget, Oscars-related quicky written by Dana Gould, voiced by Dana and Tom Kenny, drawn by me, and animated by Xeth Feinberg of Mish Mash Media. Enjoy! http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/boston_oscars_video200803 13 February 2008 A new Online Reason Strip http://www.reason.com/news/show/124698.html 21 December 2007 The latest installment in the increasingly eccentric life of Buddy "The Crazy Guy Who Works at the Dump" Bradley involves a war over scrap metal, of all things, when Buddy's old pal and business partner Jay takes over the auto junk yard next door to Buddy's place in an attempt to capitalize on the rising value of used steel. Watch what happens when these two former collector geeks butt heads over a filthy, noisy, heavy yet priceless commodity! Also in this issue: The final chapter (which works as a stand-alone story) of Bagge's "Bat Boy" run in the Weekly World News, and Lovey once again gets involved with a Man of Mystery whose "mystery" is of questionable taste! And as always, there are other odds and ends that round out this one-man anthology. Order Online here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/bagge/bagge.html#hata7 31 October 2007 The 6th and final installment of my comic book mini-series Apocalypse Nerd is now available at better local comic shops everywhere. For more details, go here: http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=13-280 26 August 2007 Big Doin's for me starting next week! First up is: DRAGON CON in Atlanta, GA, Aug 31st- Sept. 3rd. It's hosted by 3 hotels: The Atlanta Hilton, Hyatt Regency, Marriott Marquis all in the heart of downtown, and all right next to each other. I'll be signing and drawing all day in the "artists alley" area, so please stop by and say hi if you're planning on attending. On the following Wednesday, Sept. 5, REASON Magazine will be hosting a meet 'n' greet in my honor at their Washington DC offices. Blush! It's invitation only, however, so if you're in the DC area and are interested in attending please contact me here or at: peterbagge@earthlink.net about the details. Drinks and light snacks will be served, I'm told. Can't beat that! Finally on Saturday Sept. 8th, I'll be taking part in a big art show featuring work by myself, JIM BLANCHARD and JOHNNY RYAN at the Star Clipper Comics Shop and Gallery in St. Louis, MO. The opening reception runs from 7 - 10 pm, and all three of us will be in attendance. Par-tay! Starclipper is located at: 6392 Delmar Blvd. (In the Loop!) St. Louis, MO Phone: 314.725.9110 http://starclipper.popshoponline.com/ I hope to see some of you soon! 07 August 2007 BAGGE ART SHOW IN LA Attention all LA-oids! This is a friendly reminder that I'll be attending the opening of a of a collection of my own paintings, watercolors and drawings this Friday, August 10th at 8 pm at the beautiful Secret Headquarters comics shop in the Silverlake district. The show will be hanging through the rest of the month, but I hope you can all make it to the opening if only to say hello. The gallery/shop's "coordinates" are: 3817 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026 323-666-2228 For more info, go here: http://www.thesecretheadquarters.com Or here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=34432412 Hope to see you soon! BAGGE "INTROSPECTIVE" BOOK CORRECTION In my last missive, I mentioned the new COMICS INTROSPECTIVE book, all about the wonderful me. Their website has the cover price listed as $21, when in fact it's a more affordable $16.95. Copies will be available at the afore-mentioned art show, and you can learn more about it here: http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=564. And here (an interview with Author Chris Irving): http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=123735 24 May 2007 Just what you always wanted! Hate condoms!! Order 'em up here: http://secure.condomania.com/prodinfo.asp?number=C-BAGGE 6 April 2007 A new Online Reason Strip http://www.reason.com/news/show/119487.html 31 March 2007 Fantagraphics has just released a brand new, single volume collection of the entire 2nd half of the saga of Buddy Bradley from the pages of HATE Comics under the title BUDDY DOES JERSEY. It reprints all the feature stories from HATE #s 16-30, and serves as a sequel to the the recent collection entitled BUDDY DOES SEATTLE. These stories, originally printed in full color, appear in glorious black & white for the first time, the better to show off the work of my collaborator/inker Jim Blanchard in all of its crisp clear glory! This marvelous 352-page package also features a 2 page comic strip introduction by Johnny Ryan of ANGRY YOUTH COMICS fame, as well as an introductory explainer by yours truly. It also retails for a measly $14.95, thus making it the greatest comic book buy of the millennium! So don't delay -- order today! http://www.fantagraphics.com/recent/bks.html Oh, and for those of you in the Greater Seattle Metropolitan Area, both Jim Blanchard and I be signing copies of BDJ and anything at the Emerald Con (held at the Events Center next to Qwest Field) today from 5 - 7 pm. Late notice, I know, but be there anyway! OTHER BAGGE NEWS Mr. Skin Interview: http://www.mrskin.com/Skinterviews/173/Peter_Bagge.htm Daily Cross-hatch interview: http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2007/02/28/interview-peter-bagge-pt-2-of-2/#more-49 APOCALYPSE NERD #5 is finished, but it won't be in print until July. 27 September 2006 Welcome to the new peterbagge.com! All the old news items have been moved to the news archive, where most of the links will be broken.

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