CONFESSIONS OF A CELEBRITY SPOTTER By Sari Colt
When people ask me what I did on my recent trip to LosAngeles, I casually mumble that I was hanging out with Gwyneth Paltrow, Ed Norton, Roberto Benigni, Colin Firth, Drew Barrymore, Jenna Elfman, and Scott Speedman.Usually their mouths drop in disbelief until I show them the photos of myself and these stars.Then they really are impressed and start asking questions.
You see, I am a celebrity spotter.I have had the pleasure of attending several celebrity-studded events.Like the aforementioned Miramax Academy Awards Party, that was so exclusive thatactress/model Anna Nicole Smith was not allowed to enter (something about her not having a proper invitation).I have also attended a birthday party for
Bagge, Peter
"Hate" by Peter Bagge
Former editor of R. Crumb’s Weirdo anthology who set a new standard for the comics of social cruelty, Bagge’s signature flourish consists of having his cartoon creations run the emotional gamut from mildly annoyed to totally enraged in three panels or less.
After publishing his first comics in 1980 and moving to Seattle in 1984, Bagge developed his best-known titles, Neat Stuff (1985-1989) and Hate (1990-1998) for Fantagraphics Books. Both Neat Stuff and Hate document the trials and tribulations of protoslacker Buddy Bradley, a young man who languishes in low-life scumhood, a slave to cultural marginalia.
As was the case with Like R. Crumb (who called Bagge “one of the great cartoonists of the post-Crumb generation”), Bagge initially derived much of his