Peter Blegvad

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Peter Blegvad


Born
in New York City, NY, The United States
August 14, 1951

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Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who are respectively, a children's book author and illustrator.

From 1992 to 1999, The Independent ran Blegvad's strangely surreal, comic strip, Leviathan, which received much critical praise for blending some of the most interesting elements of Krazy Kat with a coming-of-age-esque story akin to Calvin and Hobbes. Some of the strips have been collected in the 2001 volume The Book of Leviathan . Other comics and illustrations by Blegvad have appeared in The Ganzfeld and Be
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Average rating: 4.17 · 787 ratings · 71 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Book of Leviathan

4.17 avg rating — 716 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions
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The Phantom Museum: And Hen...

3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Imagine Observe Remember

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Kew. Rhone.

3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Stones in My Passway

4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002
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Petrus Blegvadus se ipsum e...

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Headcheese

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Milk: Through a Glass Darkly

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The Bleaching Stream

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Gonwards by Blegvad, Peter,...

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“I'd wade through slaughter ... To drink your bathwater.”
Peter Blegvad, The Book of Leviathan

“A dropped cat always lands on its feet. Buttered toast always lands buttered side down. Strap buttered toast to back of cat , & drop. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground ...”
Peter Blegvad, The Book of Leviathan



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