Pete Wagner

Super-Independent Cartoonist, Author, Caricaturist, Designer, Scholar and Activist Artist Pete Wagner, annointed the "enfant terrible" of political satire by the late Erwin Knoll in The Progressive magazine, has been writing, drawing and designing innovative graphic-intensive books since his first book, "The Worst of the Worst of Wagner's Worst" in 1978. He was the first to come up with the title, BUY THIS BOOK, which many have since stolen, in 1980. (It was a satirical tribute to his friend Abbie Hoffman, author of STEAL THIS BOOK.) Based in the Midwest but reaching an international underground and cult following, Wagner's books are visual excursions through time and into ideas, and he and his work have been variously described as... "Raw political satire and daring social philosophy from America's heartland.... A master mythologizer." -- Alternative Media "Outrageous, critical cartooning." --In These Times "Blasphemous. Tough. Tasteless. Ironic. Compassionate. Fearless. Outrageous. Demystifying. Right on. Funny-as-hell. And moral. Yes, profoundly moral." --Small Press Review "...a serious artist...Wagner is unfair, egotistical, often brutal. He is also quite talented, and deserving of an audience...Wagner the cartoonist shines." --Milwaukee Journal Pete Wagner is blunt, mean, irreverent, nasty, vicious--and downright funny." --Madison (Wisconsin) Capital Times "A terminal adolescent. A genius gone wrong...a creative, imaginative guy who lacks discipline...and a delight." --Robert T. Smith, columnist, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "An iconoclast...Wagner is serious about being funny. His editorial cartoons are thoughtful and hard-hitting executions in the best tradition of affecting opinion with drawings." --Twin Cities Reader, alternative weekly newspaper of Minneapolis "Wicked wit...puckish irreverence...a talented, award-winning editorial cartoonist and caricaturist, Wagner's sense of the absurd has kept him from becoming a quiche eater with an establishment job and a townhouse..." --St. Paul Pioneer Press His BUY THIS BOOK (1980) and BUY THIS TOO (1987) persist in being collected and passed along three to four decades after their appearance. BUY THIS TOO 2020 (2020) was released as a Kindle e-book in October of 2020. It is available here: https://www.amazon.com/BUY-THIS-TOO-Color-Bonus-ebook/dp/B08M5Z2V6J/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=buy+this+too+by+peter+wagner&link_code=qs&qid=1610506861&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1-fkmr0&tag=mozilla-20 Future books are in the works and can be expected to find an appreciative audience that will be even more enduring.