Bagge On the Cover of Reason

Local comic journalist (that's a journalist working in the medium of comics, not a journalist covering comics) Peter Bagge made the cover of Reason magazine this month.

Bagge is on staff at the magazine and routinely does hilarious/horrifying cartoons about life in Seattle through Libertarian eyes (and if there's a ground zero for material for a Libertarian cartoonist it could very well be Seattle). The cover image is, of course, a self portrait.

The Washington Post had an article about Bagge and the cover on Tuesday.

Shortly before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Bagge, who opposed the invasion, covered an antiwar rally and drew a cartoon called "Observations From a Reluctant Anti-Warrior," a savage mockery of the pretensions of the protesters. A year later, haunted by what he termed "a deep sense of shame" about that cartoon, he drew "Confessions of a Lazy Anti-Warrior," eviscerating himself for attacking the protesters.

"I knew at the time that I was being counterproductive," he wrote, "but I couldn't help myself. I couldn't stand those people!"