Peter Bagge

Peter Bagge is an American cartoonist whose works include Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton and Sweatshop. Bagge was also an editor of Weirdo. He writing is typically humorous and his art is cartoony (as opposed to realisitic). Characters are typically young people in realistic situations.

His most well known work, the series 'Hate', became popular with in the grunge rock movement, even among people who were not comics fans.

Peter Bagge is one of the most sucessfull of the underground comics creators, although as his sucess has increased he has taken on many of the trappings of mainstream comics - his comics are now typically produced by a 'team', the subject matter of his latest effort Swaetshop is less edgy, he is now published by the a mainstream publisher, DC Comics.