December 2nd, 2012

“Still, it’s a living, wearing women’s clothes and playing bad metal!”

(Warning: historically inaccurate. And terribly written.)

Reblogged from I'm a loser, baby.
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September 28th, 2011

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge—now in comic book form!


Inspired by one of the more sensational passages from my book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, cartoonist and Melvins pal Brian Walsby took it upon himself to create this comic. (It should be noted that Brian sides with Buzz Osborne, who deems Courtney Love’s story “an absolute fabrication from someone who is insane.”)

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July 22nd, 2011
Zoom Nirvana illustration by Peter Bagge.

Nirvana illustration by Peter Bagge.

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July 18th, 2011
Zoom northwestpassageblog: Bruce Pavitt: A man with a vision.Peter Bagge, 1995. 

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Bruce Pavitt: A man with a vision.

Peter Bagge, 1995. 

Reblogged from Northwest Passage
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July 12th, 2011
Zoom Page from Csaba Mester’s comic book The Story of Alice in Chains, available here. (Courtesy of Csaba Mester.)

Page from Csaba Mester’s comic book The Story of Alice in Chains, available here. (Courtesy of Csaba Mester.)

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July 8th, 2011
Reblogged from Jezebel Jinx
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April 22nd, 2011
Zoom Illustration by Peter Bagge, from his ’90s comic Hate. Here’s the story behind the image:“I’m so out of it, I didn’t even realize how prevalent heroin use was in the grunge scene. I drew the band the character Stinky managed, and I was trying to think of the most absurd lyrics I could think of, so I had the singer scream, ‘I scream, you scream, we all scream for heroin!’ I picked heroin to be ‘out there’—you know, freak out the parents. Then I was informed that heroin was a scourge. (Laughs.)”A lot of people in the music scene were very upset. But then I found out there were people I knew who were heroin addicts and who thought it was hilarious! Like Mark Arm. He thought it was a riot.”

Illustration by Peter Bagge, from his ’90s comic Hate. Here’s the story behind the image:

“I’m so out of it, I didn’t even realize how prevalent heroin use was in the grunge scene. I drew the band the character Stinky managed, and I was trying to think of the most absurd lyrics I could think of, so I had the singer scream, ‘I scream, you scream, we all scream for heroin!’ I picked heroin to be ‘out there’—you know, freak out the parents. Then I was informed that heroin was a scourge. (Laughs.)

”A lot of people in the music scene were very upset. But then I found out there were people I knew who were heroin addicts and who thought it was hilarious! Like Mark Arm. He thought it was a riot.”

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Official Tumblr for Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, a Time magazine book of the year. (Now in paperback; purchase info here.) The blog is run by the author, freelance writer/editor Mark Yarm; he is of no relation to Mark Arm of Mudhoney.