New Releases by Peter Bagge

At the end of Buddy Does Seattle, with his rock-impresario career in tatters, his friends dispersed, and his career opportunities at zero, Buddy had decided to return with his tail between his legs (and his neurotic girlfriend Lisa on his hands) to his native New Jersey. Buddy Does Jersey collects all 15 issues of Hate describing the arc of Buddy''s East Coast experience, including his launch as a small businessman (co-owning and running a nostalgia store with the dubious Jay) and his reintegration with his family (his sister now a tired mom, his brother still pretty much a psycho, and his parents — well, wait and see). Also included in this volume is the shocking final fate of the exuberant Stinky — a story that caused jaws to drop in unison all around the world when it was originally released.

An anthology of alternative comics exploring "what it means to be American".

The confluence of cinema and comic books is a frequently raised subject, but now veteran motion-picture storyboard artist Pete Von Sholly bridges the gap once again! Morbid Volume 2, the sequel to last year''s groundbreaking publication, blurs the line between these two mediums even further. Von Sholly takes the time-honored European "fumetti" method to its next level with custom-sculpted models, costumed actors, and computer-generated special effects! The stories themselves run the gamut from tongue-in-cheek lampoons of classic sci-fi movies to gut-wrenching horror in the Lovecraft tradition. The future of graphic storytelling may well be in Pete Von Sholly''s Morbid!

The best-selling humour cartoonist of his generation, Bagge has been hailed as one of comics'' great satirists, and The Bradleys one of his greatest legacies. Cited as an early influence for Groening''s Simpsons, Pops, Mom, Buddy, Babs and Butch make up America''s most dysfunctional family. Created during the 1980s while he was editing R. Crumb''s Weirdo magazine, this volume is a collection of the very best work of an artist at the top of his game.

by Peter Bagge Buddy gets fed up with the ups and down of being an entrepreneur and decides to opt for the security of a corporate job: driving a delivery truck! Also, Bagge''s reporting from both the 2000 Democratic and "Reform" party''s respective conventions. Also, an embarrassingly honest appreciation of contemporary teen pop music, as well as a back-up story featuring Lovey. FC, 48pg

.html by Peter Bagge All of the best of Peter Bagge from the year 2000 all in one place! First off, there''s a Buddy and Lisa yarn (yay!), picking right up from HATE #30. Then, there''s an eight-page story featuring the new Bagge character, "Lovey." Add in a whole slew of "comics journalism" pieces (watch out, Joe Sacco!) done for Suck.com (R.I.P.) and presented in print here for the very first time -on such subjects as the Infomercial Oscars, hopeless presidential hopeful Alan Keyes, and the Seattle Experience Music Project, all skewered with Bagge''s trademark wit-plus such odds and ends as a three-page "Matrix" story, and you''ve got over 40 pages of never-before-printed full-color Bagge for a great price! FC, 48pg

Life sucks. I need pot. I hurt so bad. They don''t understand. My job sucks. Die! A day in the life of Donna Mathes presented with such deadpan delivery that it is simultaneously full of hilarity and despair. Beautifully rendered and presented by the master of alternative comics, Mr Peter Bagge. Mini-comic format that can be mailed like a postcard.

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Hate #30

A full-color collection of Peter Bagge''s alternative classic comic book series, "Hate". Bagge has turned an underground artistic success into commercial success and, subsequently, has turned on a new generation of fans to alternative comics.

Reprinting issues #1-15, Fun chronicles the duo''s disintergration into drunken misery - plus the return of Stinky, Val, and George Hamilton III.

''Hate'' volumes 6-10, including Follow that Dream'', the eopic-length journey to the heart of the American grunge dream, plus more tales of losers, flakes and ditzes.''

Starring Junior, the oafish unemployable mama''s boy and Chet & Bunny Leeway, jaded cynical suburbanites trapped in a state of constant alienation. Plus Zoove Groover and The Reject''.''

A warts-and-nothing else portrait of a right wing talk show host with a major attitude (not to mention drinking) problem.