Synopses & Reviews
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- tales of the dysfunctional Bradley family from , 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. remain his most enduring creation. Created in the 1980s while Bagge was also editing R. Crumb's magazine, this family for the ages has its roots firmly planted in 's Bunker family and magazine, with a healthy punk rock anger occasionally exploding--think of an R-rated and you're close.
Review
"I can count on one hand the number of comic artists whose work is as strong... maybe on two or three fingers... It's a laff riot, what can I tell ya?" R. Crumb
Review
American satirical cartooning at its most inventively hilarious.The Bradleys have more vices than virtues and Bagge explores them with a violent and insolent humor.Broadly satirical and funny, marked by Bagge’s rubbery art style and a sarcastic tone that should appeal immediately to anyone with a prior awareness of The Simpsonsor Looney Tunes. They’re also good stories, full of sharp observations about the impossible expectations that govern the dynamics of a nuclear family, as well as the way a good used Yardbirds record can make a crappy day better. -- Noel Murray
Review
Peter Bagge is thefunniest cartoonist in existence. -- "Recommended First Comics"
Synopsis
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!
About the Author
Peter Bagge is the internationally acclaimed, award-winning creator of Buddy Does Seattle and Woman Rebel; he lives and teaches in Seattle, WA.