The new issue of Vice magazine (guest edited by Johnny Ryan) is all about comics. Here's an interview Johnny had with Peter Bagge, creator of Neat Stuff and Hate and the editor of Weirdo, all three of which are among my most treasured comics.
Ryan: Is it true that one of those old ZAP guys wanted to beat you up?
Bagge: Spain Rodriguez gave Crumb some strips that he had done for Screw magazine that Crumb had passed on to me, suggesting I reprint them. I didn't think they were all that great—they were these sexy female spy stories—so I didn't. As a result he told some people he was going to beat me up over it, but when I met him years later he didn't even mention it. I think he was annoyed because he knew Crumb would have reprinted them in a heartbeat.
