Hate is a
comic book series by
Peter Bagge. It falls into the genre of "alternative comics". It is centered on
Buddy Bradley, who is actually a charicature of
Peter Bagge himself. It follows Buddy's trials and tribulations as he moves to
Seattle from
New Jersey, then back again. It captures the early to mid 90's "scene" in a very realistic way. The series spanned 30 issues, and is still available from
Fantagraphics.
Hate was known as a "slacker comic" since Peter lived in Seattle when a lot of it was drawn. When I heard Peter speak at the Portland Art Museum, he mentioned that a lot of times when someone came to Seattle from a famous magazine to do a story about Sub Pop records or the "grunge" scene, a little story about Hate would end up as a sidebar to that article.
The main characters in the series were: