Comics Early career Bagge began his career in New York City in 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 was editing,
Weirdo.
2005 – present From 2005 to 2007, Bagge worked on
Apocalypse Nerd, a comic published by
Dark Horse Comics about two average, urban males dealing with 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 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. at San Diego Comic-Con, July 24, 2010 Starting with 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, 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 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.
Animation and music 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 the Seattle based power pop band The Action Suits, and guitar for another power pop band, Can You Imagine. ==Art style==