Call for Zine, Comix and Artist's Book-Makers; Printed Materials Section Announced for Multiples Chicago October; Peter Bagge Guest Speaker

MULTIPLES. Chicago is proud to announce the addition of the PRINTED MATERIALS section to its October art and critical craft fair event! The Printed Materials section is a special section at Multiples. focused on showcasing the best in printed materials by artists, with a special emphasis on zines, comix, artist's books and more.
PETER BAGGE WILL JOIN PRINTED MATERIALS AT MULTIPLES to give a very special talk on his inspirations, working in the comix world in the '80s and 90's, and later for Dark Horse and DC, his recent work with Reason magazine, and the history of Comix.
BIO
Peter Bagge was born on December 11th, 1957, and raised in Peekskill, New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. While enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1977, Bagge discovered underground comics, and the work of R. Crumb in particular turned what had initially been only a vague interest in cartooning into a passion.
In the early '80s Bagge co-published three issues of COMICAL FUNNIES (1980-81), a New York-based comic tabloid which saw the debut of Bagge's dysfunctional suburban family, The Bradleys. Bagge broke into R. Crumb's legendary magazine, WEIRDO, and Bagge took over as managing editor of that magazine from 1983 to 1986.
Bagge started his own comic book series, NEAT STUFF, for Fantagraphics Books, producing 15 issues from 1985 to '89. Buddy Bradley, the Bradleys' alienated and pessimistic teenage son, emerged as Neat Stuff's most engaging and fully-realized character. In 1990, NEAT STUFF evolved into a new title, HATE, which exclusively followed the foibles of the semi-autobiographical Buddy Bradley. Hate became the voice of the twenty-nothing slackers as well as being hailed by critics for its brilliant characterization in its complete chronicle of the 1990s. HATE and Buddy Bradley continue to appear in print, albeit less frequently, under the title HATE ANNUAL.
Since 1999, Bagge has worked on many other comic-related projects, including writing an all ages comic book for DC called YEAH! (drawn by Gilbert Hernandez). as well as the short lived humor series SWEATSHOP, also for DC. He also wrote and drew a one-shot satire of Spider-Man for Marvel, and has done the same with Marvel's The Hulk, though the later title has yet to be scheduled for release. Other projects include a 2 year stint writing and drawing a weekly comic strip about Bat Boy for THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, and a series of illustrated essays for the now defunct website Suck.com, which led to his becoming a current regular features contributor to the political and social commentary magazine REASON.
Most recently, Bagge has been working on a 6 part mini-series for Dark Horse called APOCALYPSE NERD, which should be complete in 2007.
Bagge's exaggerated and distinctively in-your-face illustration style has also appeared on many record and CD covers, and in magazines as far ranging as HUSTLER, MAD and the OXFORD AMERICAN. He's also had a hand in several animation projects, most notably the online Rock & Roll Dad cartoon series he co-created with Dana Gould for Icebox.com.
Peter Bagge has lived in Seattle since 1984. He resides with his wife Joanne, and daughter Hannah, and three darned cats.
Deadlines and Participation Fees are as follows in USD:
EARLY DEADLINE
July 15, 2013 – Participation Fee: $50
REGULAR DEADLINE
August 15, 2014 – Participation Fee: $60
LATE DEADLINE
September 7, 2014 – Participation Fee: $75
The fees includes 3 images; an additional fee of $5 per image for up to 10 total images entered. All images and information will be used for press and publicity purposes, and registrants acknowledge and consent to use of uploaded registration materials for these purposes.
Please, no emails or phone calls for results.
Participation Fees:
All Printed Materials section exhibitors will receive a shared table. If you have another vendor in mind with whom you'd like to share your table, please indicate their name(s) in the application. Otherwise, the Multiples. team can find another vendor to pair you with from our list of applicants.
Full table dimensions are 96"w x 30"d. Shared tables are half these dimensions.
APPLY ONLINE AT: http://www.artmultiples.net/printed_materials.html