Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad fascinates me as a true polymath who never seemed interested in playing it safe. A founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy and a brief collaborator with Henry Cow, he is also a cartoonist and cinematographer, and even won a first comic book prize at Angouleme. Raised by a children's author and an illustrator, he treats creativity like breathing, moving fluidly between music, drawing, and words. I have a soft spot for artists who build their own private universe rather than chase the charts. Blegvad is exactly that kind of cult figure, the sort whose work keeps quietly rewarding the curious.

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Name (English)

Peter Blegvad

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・ブレグヴァド

Reading

ぴーたー・ぶれぐゔぁど

Born

August 14, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

guitarist / singer-songwriter / songwriter / comics artist / cinematographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Blegvad
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838269

Tags

• New York
• guitarist
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.