Neat Stuff
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Peter Bagge's one-man comics anthology (there would be many more) was first published by Fantagraphics in 1985.
[edit] Characters
- Girly Girl - a grinning, leering, rambunctious young troublemaker who found humour in dead animals, festering sores and clobbering child psychologists with baseball bats. True to form, her first strip appearance ended with her being squashed underfoot by her unseen "biggest fan".
- Studs Kirby - a ranting, bullet-headed, reactionary talk radio presenter who lives in the past (his favourite singers are Brenda Lee and Doris Day), gets drunk a lot, bends the ears of his friends with his ill-informed, prejudiced opinions and begins an escalating hate campaign against his former hero, fellow talk show host Mel Pratt, which becomes an all-out ego war.
- Junior - a hulking, gormless (British slang meaning extremely stupid), lantern-jawed social inadequate in a horrible plaid suit who still lives with his doting mother and seems terrified of the outside world.
- The Goon On The Moon - as his name suggests, a friendless loser who lives on the moon.
- Chuckie-boy - Girly Girl's brother or best friend (their respective roles are never clearly defined) and the target for most of her bizarre, violent slapstick pranks.
- Chet and Bunny Leeway - a young couple who seem increasingly dissatisfied with their tedious lives and isolated from the world around them.
- The Bradleys - a spoof on dysfunctional families, apparently based on Bagge's own family. Brad Bradley, the father, is an overweight, perpetually complaining slob and Betty Bradley, the mother, is a God-fearing, occasionally foul-tempered 'woman of the eighties', whilst their children, Butch (a gullible, war-mad pre-teen), Babs (a plain, self-absorbed teenage girl with retainers on her teeth) and Buddy (a retro music-loving slacker) alternate between fighting each other and their own parents. After Neat Stuff ended, Hate became the continuation of this story line.
