{"id":7931,"date":"2014-12-11T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2014-12-10T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T06:44:18","slug":"peter-bagge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2014\/12\/11\/peter-bagge\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bagge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PeterBagge.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Peter Bagge\" title=\"Peter Bagge\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 0px;\" \/>The great cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Bagge\">Peter Bagge<\/a> is 57 today. Is he really great? I think he is. I remember when he first started publishing, his rubbery characterizations and his outrageous sensibility were very new. I&#8217;ve always thought that he and Bill Watterson looked kind of similar, but he took it to extremes that fit what he was trying to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>I probably first saw him in <i>Weirdo<\/i> in the early 1980s. But I really got into him with the first issue of <i>Neat Stuff<\/i>. Looking at it now, I find it kind of embarrassing. The artwork is great, but the writing is kind of like <i>Mad Magazine<\/i> for teens. But they had their moments. There was Studs Kirby, every <i>Fox News<\/i> viewing man you&#8217;ve ever met &#8212; with sentimental periods where he drinks himself to sleep listening to Brenda Lee records. And there was The Bradleys, a highly dysfunctional family &#8212; not really well written but wonderfully rendered. As I recall, this is from the end of a strip where Buddy has purchased The Yardbirds&#8217; greatest hits or something:<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheBradleys-PeterBagge.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" alt=\"The Bradleys - Peter Bagge\" title=\"The Bradleys - Peter Bagge\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You don&#8217;t find much Bagge on the internet. At least you don&#8217;t compared to the far greater Bernie Wrightson. I assume this is because Bagge is a greedy man who just can&#8217;t get enough money. The last time I saw him, he was publishing cartoons in the libertarian <i>Reason Magazine<\/i>. I&#8217;ve since learned that he also writes articles. I really don&#8217;t want to know. You start with an artist &#8212; generally not the greatest analysts. Then you combine that with the libertarian thinking of someone at the top of his profession &#8212; who had success very young. This is not a formula for deep thinking. But Woody Allen being a child molester doesn&#8217;t make his films any less great. Peter Bagge being a libertarian doesn&#8217;t make his comics any less great. Am I saying these are the same? Only in the sense that they both show a lack of impulse control.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Peter Bagge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great cartoonist Peter Bagge is 57 today. Is he really great? I think he is. I remember when he first started publishing, his rubbery characterizations and his outrageous sensibility were very new. 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