Chet Leeway

Chet Leeway is a supporting character in Peter Bagge's alt-comics universe, part of the chaotic, dysfunctional Leeway family ensemble that populated the pages of Neat Stuff and related titles.

Peter Bagge introduced Chet Leeway to the world in Neat Stuff #8 in 1987, and this Fantagraphics creation has lingered in the underground-inflected, alt-comics universe Bagge so memorably built across the Copper and Modern Ages. Sharing pages with the likes of Bunny Leeway, Junior, and Butch Bradley — the gloriously dysfunctional ensemble that made Bagge's work essential reading — Chet turns up across Neat Stuff, Junior, and Hate Annual, a span stretching all the way to 2013. For fans of American alternative comics at their most bracingly human and absurd, Chet is a small but genuine piece of a landmark body of work.