With sharp characterization and dead-on satire, this book collects some of the sharpest, funniest stories about American life ever set to paper. Butch, Buddy, Babs, Mom and Dad redefine "nuclear" family: as in fissionable!
Meet the Bradleys, America's most dysfunctional family: Pops, Mom, Buddy, Babs and Butch Bradley. This volume collects all of Bagge's early, explosively funny pre-Hate tales of the dysfunctional Bradley family from Neat Stuff, including "You're Not the Boss of Me!," "Merry F*cking Christmas!," and "Rock 'n' Roll Refugee." The best-selling humor cartoonist of his generation, Bagge has been hailed as one of comics' great satirists along with James Thurber, Harvey Kurtzman, and Matt Groening. The Bradleys remain his most enduring creation. Created in the 1980s while Bagge was also editing R. Crumb's Weirdo magazine, this family for the ages has its roots firmly planted in All In the Family's Bunker family and MAD magazine, with a healthy punk rock anger occasionally exploding―think of an R-rated Simpsons and you're close. 160 pages of black-and-white comics"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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.
The art is what readers will notice first about this alternately hilarious and harrowing collection. All members of the Bradley family—Dad, Mother, little brother Butch, young teen Babs and disgruntled high school senior Buddy—have bodies that contort like writhing eels and faces that swell, twist and stretch expressively. These lively pages are balanced by scenes in which the characters fumble their way through "normal" conversations. No one could constantly live at such an extreme emotional pitch, and these white, middle-class New Jerseyans only sometimes awaken from their zomboid routines to recognize their anger at their family and all the other phonies around them. That realization is typical of the perceptiveness that's kept these stories from Neat Stuff alive for this 15th-anniversary edition. Bagge's strange art is stranger than that of R. Crumb, but it feels more realistic. He's not especially kind, yet still fair to the world's irritating people. Bagge could have used Buddy to jeer at the conformist idiots who try to bring him down, and he could've easily sneered at what a pathetically inconsistent twerp Buddy can be. However, Bagge is too sharp an observer to overlook both how real the characters' pain is and also how funny they are as they frantically struggle to deal with problems. Eventually, Buddy breaks loose from this set of frustrations, though, natch, more problems are sure to come.
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