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Peter Bagge, along with the Hernandez brothers and Daniel Clowes,
is one of the primary architects of the alternative comics genre that
exploded in the 1980s and 1990s. His compelling and best-selling
comic book series Hate chronicled the exploits of Buddy Bradley
and his gang of lovable losers through the rise and fall of the grunge
era, and beyond. Going beyond mere satire, Bagge’s observations
helped fashion the aesthetics and attitudes of the only significant
youth movement to emerge from the Pacific Northwest. A contemporary
review by Bruce Barcott in the Seattle Weekly stated,
“Twenty years from now, when people want to know what it was
like to be young in 1990s Seattle, the only record we’ll have is
Peter Bagge’s Hate.”
The Complete Hate is a new paperback series that includes
the original 30-issue run from 1990–1998, the nine subsequent
Hate Annuals, and tons of other Hate-related comics, illustrations, and
ephemera created for books, magazines, comics, toys, and other merchandise.
Bagge combined his cartoony drawing style with uncomfortably
real Gen X characters, and the comic books resonated with readers.
Volume 1 collects the first major arc of the series, (Hate 1–15), focusing
on young Buddy Bradley’s travails in early 1990s Seattle, with a lengthy
introduction by Bagge. Each volume contains new covers, endpapers,
title pages, and other surprises by the author.