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Drawn & Quarterly Publishes Peter Bagge's Credo – The Rose Wilder Lane Story in March 2019
Peter Bagge is old school comics. Creating comics like Neat Stuff and its follow up Hate for Fantagraphics, he was at the centre of the storm for slacker grunge comics in the nineties, with his work picked up by Deadline and the music scene. He worked for Marvel, the Weekly World New and took a libertarian dive in recent years.
In March, he has a new graphic novel out for Drawn & Quarterly, Credo – The Rose Wilder Lane Story, focusing on the libertarian pioneer, writer, feminist and war correspondent, as well as her mother Laura Ingalls Wilder and her role in Little House On The Prairie.
Here are the new solicitations for this, and Michael Deforge's Leaving Richards Valley.
Peter Bagge returns with a biography of another fascinating twentieth-century trailblazer: the writer, feminist, war correspondent, and libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Credo is a fast-paced, charming, informative look at a founder of the American libertarian movement and a champion of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in bringing the classic Little House on the Prairie series to the American public. Bagge's portrait of Lane is heartfelt and affectionate, probing into the personal roots of her rugged individualism.
Richard is a benevolent but tough leader who oversees everything that happens in the valley. When Lyle the Raccoon becomes sick, his ragtag group of friends take matters into their own hands, breaking Richard's strict rules. Caroline Frog rats them out to Richard and they are immediately exiled from the only world they've ever known. DeForge's tale expands from a bizarre hero's quest into something more: they make it out of the valley and into the big city, and we see them coming to terms with different kinds of community: noise-rockers, gentrification protesters, squatters, and more.