Manik are thumping out the collaborations this year. The latest is a series of decks and tees with acclaimed cartoonist Pete Bagge. The deck feature work from Pete’s landmark comic HATE.

There was a big launch party for these decks in Seattle over the weekend at Fantagraphics bookstore. Some of the Manik crew where in attendance, there are a couple of pics below or you can check out more here.

There’s no doubt that Bagge’s grunge-era imagery is ideally suited to the skateboarding subculture. At once hilarious and poignant, Bagge’s work of this era went beyond satire, and helped fashion both the attitudes and aesthetics of Seattle’s only significant indigenous youth movement. In the opinion of Fantagraphics Books’ resident curator Larry Reid, “Peter Bagge’s HATE is the most fully conceived and executed comic book series ever published.”

That’s a pretty big wrap from someone I’ve never heard of……but hey, I love the decks.