false 523262 1 <B>The legendary Seattle stories from Hate comics that defined a generation.</B> <P>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 <I>Weirdo</I> magazine in the mid-'80s and then creating the Bradley family within the pages his first comic book series, <I>Neat Stuff</I>, 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. <I>Hate</I> 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, <I>Hate</I> became one of the defining voices of not only the Seattle "grunge" scene, but all of Generation X nationwide (and has been spotted in many films through the years, from Larry Clark's <I>Kids</I> to John Waters' <I>Pecker</I>). In addition, critics hailed it for its brilliant characterization. <I>The Seattle Weekly</I> wrote, "20 years from now, when people wonder what it was like to be young in 1990's Seattle, the only record we'll have is Peter Bagge's <I>Hate</I>." <P> For 15 issues, the rock 'n' roll emanating from the damp garages of the Pacific Northwest came to life in glorious black-and-white in the pages of <I>Hate</I>. Bagge more or less cemented his association with the subculture in 1992 when he devoted two issues of <I>Hate</I> to a story where Buddy Bradley manages his best pal Stinky's grunge band, Leonard and the Love Gods, whose original lineup included three guys named Kurt. <P> <I>Buddy Does Seattle</I> collects the entire Seattle arc from the pages of <I>Hate</I>; this is the first time the entire saga has appeared under one cover. Bagge's characters are some of the most fully-realized in comics&#151;Buddy, the slacker antihero, Valerie, Buddy's Prozac-normalized 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 arcana into his notebook&#151;they display their emotions so openly, so helplessly, so graphically, and with such precision as they attempt to negotiate the ragged terrain of early adulthood that it would all be rather horrifying if it weren't such a riot. Bagge's cartooning aids the cause, with one of the most idiosyncratic and inspiredly elastic and cartoony drawing styles in comics history. 511140 28 2 2005 Buddy Does Seattle: The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics, Vol. I (1990-'94) total:189|5:90|4:65|3:29|2:4|1:1| 189 806 222 23 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 12:11:10 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 12:13:08 -0800 2009
i had a copy of HATE BOOK 1 that i read and read and read as a wee one, it was part of my like DUDE SEATTLE'S RIGHT THERE campaign, trying to understand my uncle's stories about hijinks and mayhem in a nasty old seattle before microsoft hit it big and peo...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jun 14 19:47:20 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 23:17:01 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 12 17:09:54 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 30 10:15:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 08 13:57:10 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 13:59:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 18:17:04 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 18:19:35 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 06:53:04 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 17:58:37 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 13 22:18:05 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 22:22:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 30 18:48:06 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 19:04:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 16 11:13:58 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 13:03:45 -0700 2007
i can't say enough about how great pete bagge's comics are, so i won't say anything. just get this one and BUDDY DOES SEATTLE (hate #16-30). at $15 each, it's probably the best $30 i'll ever spend.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 10:50:01 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 10:51:59 -0800 2008 it was pretty crude. i liked it alot!]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Mar 30 12:53:34 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 12:54:25 -0700 2008
I shouldn't be able to relate to Lisa Leavenworth so much. One of my favorite comics characters ever.]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 16 23:39:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 11:02:18 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 23:39:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 17 06:39:08 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 06:41:43 -0700 2007 ]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 02 07:46:42 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 02 07:47:08 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jun 22 16:01:23 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 16:01:52 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed May 21 13:45:32 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 13:47:21 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 22:26:20 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 17:17:42 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Jul 16 05:37:24 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 05:39:54 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 14 10:52:08 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 24 14:03:07 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 15:22:17 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 15:33:37 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=523262