Bagge's detailed, garrulous, and often grotesquely funny (and discom ting) work harks back to the underground generation, recalling R. Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, while also pointing forward to the emergence of alternative comics as a distinct genre. His signature series, the rawly humorous Hate and his editorship of the often outrageous Weirdo magazine, founded by Crumb, established Bagge as a leading voice in alternative comics, and his rude,...