Suck.com was an online magazine , one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet . It featured daily editorial content on a great variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture . Launched in 1995 and geared towards a Generation X audience, the website's motto was "A fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun". Despite not publishing new content since 2001, the site remained online until December 2018.
31-651: Peter Bagge (pronounced / b æ ɡ / , as in bag ; born December 11, 1957) is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Neat Stuff and Hate . His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on Hate . In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism . Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com , MAD Magazine , toonlet , Discover , and
62-480: A Hulk comic, The Incorrigible Hulk , which was completed but never released due to a management change at Marvel Comics at the time. In August 2009, The Incorrigible Hulk was finally released in serialized form for the Marvel Knights imprint's Strange Tales miniseries. From 2005 to 2007, Bagge worked on Apocalypse Nerd , a comic published by Dark Horse Comics about two average, urban males dealing with
93-551: A collection of interviews with Bagge spanning three decades was published 2015 by the University Press of Mississippi . His graphic-novel biographies include Woman Rebel , about birth control advocate Margaret Sanger , Fire!! , about writer Zora Neale Hurston , and Credo , about author and political theorist Rose Wilder Lane . In 2003, Bagge became a contributing writer with the libertarian magazine Reason in whose pages he has published both prose and comics pieces over
124-770: A compilation of the site's most popular essays in Suck: Worst-Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising and the Internet ( ISBN 1-888869-27-5 ). In the years 2000 to 2001, cartoonist Peter Bagge did a number of comics journalism stories for Suck on such topics as politics, the Miss America Pageant , bar culture, and the Oscars . In July 2000, after a decrease in Internet investment, Suck.com merged with Feed Magazine to create Automatic Media . The concept
155-569: A futile thing to attempt, but I think I wound up pulling it off better than I ever thought I would." Bagge's wife Joanne contributes coloring work to her husband's publications. Bagge has long been openly libertarian in his politics, and many of his comics feature references to this. He opposed the Iraq War and criticized George W. Bush . Bagge voted for Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne in 2000 and Democrat John Kerry in 2004 because he "wanted to fire Bush." When asked who he
186-403: A self-obsessed and satiric theme. The writing was accentuated by the art of cartoonist Terry Colon . In addition to Colon's distinctive artwork, the website also had many features common to its articles. The main text of each article was restricted to a table only 200 pixels wide. Most articles featured links within the flow of the content rather than as in labeled footnotes or references, which
217-414: Is Bagge's best-known. After ending Hate as a regular title, Bagge has produced a series of Hate Annuals between 2000 - 2010. Bagge created and wrote an all-ages comic series for DC Comics called Yeah! , about an all-girl rock band, drawn by Gilbert Hernandez . The series ran nine issues (1999 to 2000). Sweatshop , published by DC Comics in 2003, was produced, unlike early issues of Hate , with
248-457: Is a four-part, monthly comic-book miniseries written and illustrated by Bagge and published by Dark Horse Comics . The story revolves around a middle-aged, washed-up comic actor who agrees to take part in the development of a computer application that allows him to relive his life in a virtual sense. The first issue was released in April 2012. It was collected into a book that same year. Starting with
279-578: The Weekly World News , with the comic strip Adventures of Batboy . He has expressed his libertarian views in features for Reason . Peter Bagge was born in Peekskill, New York , and grew up in the New York City suburbs. Bagge's father was in the military and Bagge has talked about how his Catholic household was the scene of "lots of drunken fights about money. We were the weirdo outcast kids of
310-506: The InterNIC system for the distribution of domain names before ICANN acquired that authority. The name also described the nature of " news aggregator " sites that "sucked" stories from the internet and published them in magazine-like formats. During 1996, Suck integrated the writing talent of Heather Havrilesky , who provided the sarcastic comments of her supposed alter ego "Polly Esther" in her column, Filler . In 1997, Suck published
341-648: The Republican elephant . Comic strips received widespread distribution to mainstream newspapers by syndicates . Calum MacKenzie, in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists (Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, 1979) defined the selection criteria: Many strips were the work of two people although only one signature was displayed. Shortly after Frank Willard began Moon Mullins in 1923, he hired Ferd Johnson as his assistant. For decades, Johnson received no credit. Willard and Johnson traveled about Florida , Maine, Los Angeles , and Mexico, drawing
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#1733085421784372-495: The 18th century, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Following the work of Hogarth, editorial/political cartoons began to develop in England in the latter part of the 18th century under the direction of its great exponents, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson , both from London. Gillray explored the use of the medium for lampooning and caricature , calling
403-466: The February 2009 issue, the popular science and technology magazine Discover has featured a continuing series of History of Science comic strips created by Peter Bagge. Bagge's comics feature key characters and events from scientific history. Bagge is the subject of the first volume of TwoMorrows Publishing 's new Comics Introspective series of books, published in 2007. Peter Bagge: Conversations ,
434-452: The Seattle based power pop band The Action Suits, and guitar for another power pop band, Can You Imagine. Bagge's signature elastic, kinetic art style is a product of his love for 1940s Warner Brothers cartoons (especially those directed by Bob Clampett ). Bagge has said that he "always wanted to capture that sense of movement and exaggeration in a static format. In retrospect this sounds like
465-688: The aftermath of a nuclear attack on the Pacific Northwest . Backup stories in Apocalypse Nerd featured historically researched anecdotal tales of America's Founding Fathers . The final issue of the six-issue series was published in 2007. A trade paperback collection was released in 2008. Other Lives is a graphic novel written and drawn by Bagge, and published by DC Comics on their Vertigo imprint in 2010. The story revolves around four people, whose real lives—along with their online virtual personas—interact in ultimately disastrous ways. Reset
496-454: The book Everybody is Stupid Except Me: and Other Astute Observations. Bagge has continued with his strips covering libertarian issues in Hate Annual . Bagge won the 1991 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist. In addition, Hate won the 1991 Harvey Award for Best New Series, and has been nominated for various Harvey awards in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. Bagge
527-403: The early 1980s, contributing comics and illustrations to various underground newspapers and pornography magazines. In 1980–1981, Bagge co-published the all-comics tabloid Comical Funnies with former staffers of Punk magazine (including John Holmstrom ). Bagge sent copies of Comical Funnies to underground comics legend R. Crumb , who published some Bagge strips in the anthology Crumb
558-426: The help of an art team. The series ran six issues. Starting in 1998 (in a piece for Details magazine), and really intensely in the years 2000 to 2002, Bagge did a number of comics journalism stories—on such topics as politics, the Miss America Pageant , bar culture, Christian rock , and the Oscars —mostly for suck.com . In 2002, Bagge did his version of Spider-Man for Marvel Comics . He followed this with
589-456: The indefinite hiatus, co-founder Joey Anuff said, "It was a shame. On the other hand... it’s shocking how long Suck lasted." During the autumn of 2015, software developer Mark MacDonald began serializing the website's archive in an email newsletter, which is sent on a daily basis 20 years-to-the-day after its original publication on Suck.com. From the beginning, site founders Anuff and Steadman created daily comically cynical commentary with
620-751: The king ( George III ), prime ministers and generals to account, and has been referred to as the father of the political cartoon. While never a professional cartoonist, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the first cartoon published in The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754: Join, or Die , depicting the American colonies as segments of a snake. In the 19th century, professional cartoonists such as Thomas Nast , whose work appeared in Harper's Weekly , introduced other familiar American political symbols, such as
651-585: The literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets , comic strips , comic books , editorial cartoons , graphic novels , manuals , gag cartoons , storyboards , posters , shirts , books , advertisements , greeting cards , magazines , newspapers , webcomics , and video game packaging . A cartoonist's discipline encompasses both authorial and drafting disciplines (see interdisciplinary arts ). The terms "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or "comic book artist" refer to
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#1733085421784682-451: The neighborhood. I couldn't get away fast enough." Bagge was confirmed as a teenager; his confirmation name is Peter Christian Paul Bagge (with Paul being an homage to Paul McCartney .) Moving to New York City in the mid-1970s, Bagge attended the School of Visual Arts for three semesters in 1977 before dropping out to work on Punk magazine. Bagge began his career in New York City in
713-475: The picture-making portion of the discipline of cartooning (see illustrator ). While every "cartoonist" might be considered a "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist", not every "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist" is a "cartoonist". Ambiguity might arise when illustrators and writers share each other's duties in authoring a work. The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth , who emerged in
744-527: The same award in 1992 and 1993). In addition, Buddy Bradley from Bagge's Hate won the 1991 UK Comic Art Award for Best Character. Bagge was also the recipient of a 2014 United States Artists award, and was named a Rockefeller Fellow for Literature. Cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators / artists in that they produce both
775-478: The strip while living in hotels, apartments and farmhouses. At its peak of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, the strip ran in 350 newspapers. According to Johnson, he had been doing the strip solo for at least a decade before Willard's death in 1958: "They put my name on it then. I had been doing it about 10 years before that because Willard had heart attacks and strokes and all that stuff. The minute my name went on that thing and his name went off, 25 papers dropped
806-525: The strip. That shows you that, although I had been doing it ten years, the name means a lot." Societies and organizations Societies and organizations Suck.com Suck was initiated in 1995 by writer Joey Anuff and editor Carl Steadman , two former employees of HotWired , the first commercial online magazine. The name of the website, Suck.com, was chosen as a domain name with possibly offensive connotations — though apparently not enough to be disallowed by Network Solutions , which controlled
837-595: The years. 2009 saw the release of a collection of Bagge's Reason work called Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me (And Other Astute Observations) . A second edition was released in late 2013. Bagge continues to contribute to Reason . Bagge made a series of animated commercials for Round Table Pizza . In 2001 Bagge collaborated with comedian Dana Gould to produce the Macromedia Flash Internet cartoon Murry Wilson: Rock 'N' Roll Dad . The four-episode series premiered on Icebox.com . Bagge also played drums for
868-629: Was editing, Weirdo . Bagge contributed to many issues of Weirdo from that point forward, mostly illustrating stories written by Dave Carrino. In 1984, Crumb passed on the editorial reins of Weirdo to Bagge, who edited it for three years (and one guest issue in 1989). In 1985, Bagge entered into a long professional association with the alternative-comics publisher Fantagraphics , beginning with his first solo series, Neat Stuff . This omnibus introduced such characters as Girly-Girl, Junior, Studs Kirby, The Bradleys , and Buddy Bradley . Neat Stuff ran until 1989. Its sequel series, Hate (1990–1998),
899-468: Was presented with an Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010 in recognition of his achievements in comics. Bagge won the 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Archival Collection/Project: ( The Complete Hate {Fantagraphics}) He also was previously nominated for an Eisner Award several times: Bagge won the UK Comic Art Award for Best Writer/Artist in 1990 (and was nominated for
930-495: Was to streamline operations and collaborate on boutique operations with low staffing costs. The joint project, Plastic.com , was founded with only four staffed employees. Despite the site's faithful following and a combined reader base of more than one million, however, Automatic Media ended in June 2001. On June 8, 2001, Suck.com declared that they were "Gone Fishin'" indefinitely, and the site ceased to publish new content. Regarding
961-473: Was voting for in the 2008 election , he wrote: "If the polls in my home state are close: Obama ( McCain is simply too incompetent these days to be president). If not, I'll make a protest vote for [Bob] Barr ." In a follow-up article in Reason , Bagge stated, "I wound up voting for Barr, and I stand by that vote more now than I did then!" Bagge collected his work for Reason expressing his Libertarian views in