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Vertigo previews Daytripper, Other Lives

Other Lives

It's a good day for previews over at the official Vertigo blog, Graphic Content. Pamela Mullins has posted some pages from Peter Bagge's Other Lives, which is due from the publisher next year. She also shares more preview pages from Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon's Daytripper, which comes out in December. And lastly, check out the cover to Joe the Barbarian #2.

Comics Cavalcade: Ayn Rand and Wonder Woman

Will Everyone Please Stop Freaking Out Over Ayn Rand by Peter Bagge

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Your video of the day: Backroom talks Bagge

Or rather, the comics podcast The Backroom talks to Peter Bagge in the first of this two-part interview. (found via Flog)

Peter Bagge's Bradleys are heading for FOX

Move over, American Dad

Could Buddy Bradley be the next Bart Simpson? That's the tantalizing possibility presented by Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds today, as he revealed that writer/artist Peter Bagge has signed a deal with the FOX network to produce a pilot for a potential prime-time animated series based on the Bradleys, the less-than-functional family at the heart of Bagge's series Neat Stuff and Hate. The show would reportedly focus on Buddy's teen years at home.

This caps off a rather high-profile few months for Bagge (ahem, Professor Bagge) , a period that has seen the release of his political-strip collection Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me from Fantagraphics and his long-suppressed Incorrigible Hulk story in Marvel's Strange Tales anthology. No word yet on whether he plans to have Mrs. Bradley pose for Playboy.

Robot reviews: Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me

Everybody Is Stupid Except Me

Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations
by Peter Bagge
Fantagraphics Books, 120 pages, $16.99.

Peter Bagge's seminal work in the 1980s and 90s (Hate, Neat Stuff) always featured characters going off on extended rants about one subject or another, so it's no real surprise to find that the author has managed to transition himself into something of a reporter/editorial pundit.

Nor is it any real surprise that the pieces collected in awesomely-named Everyone Is Stupid Except for Me -- all of which were done for Reason magazine over the past nine years or so -- are wonderfully entertaining and often fall-on-the-floor funny, even when you find yourself at odds with Bagge's viewpoint.

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Peter Bagge drops science

Bagge's Discover comic

Peter Bagge is apparently doing monthly strips for Discover Magazine about He's posted a sample strip over at his MySpace page. (Which also, by the way features a page from his aborted Hulk project. Man, when will Marvel get hip and finally put that thing out?)

Bagge also designed some new T-shirts for Stussy, and in return they put together a great video interview with him. (all found via Flog)