Peter Bagge Interviewed as Seattle Icon Cartoonist Peter Bagge compares Seattle then and now as part of a series of interviews with "icons," which the Seattle P-I defines as people who were around before the mid-1990s. "Even in the alternative cartooning scene that I'm in ... a lot of young cartoonists came here right out of college. I don't know what they thought was going to happen, that some fairy dust would be sprinkled on them and they would become rich."