Back in 2006, I began a little comic strip about anthropomorphic piggies. I was a rabid, bible-thumping christian at the time and my aim was to anger Jewish folks with a cast of unkosher characters talking about in-your-face spiritual stuff. I honestly thought that they would be incensed. Yeah! I’d show those filthy Christ killers and deniers!
Needless to say, nobody noticed (which I now realise was precisely the appropriate response). Not only did the strips I produced fail to touch on religious themes, they also proved to be quite bland and uninteresting. You could even call them ‘safe’. That’s the worst thing any cartoonist can put out into the world. And whatever the hell I was putting out there wasn’t even being done very well.
Many years later, Tati asked me how these contradictory ideas and creative approach could coexist in one head. Was I trying to fit in with my fellow believers by showing how much a ‘soldier’ for Jesus I could be? Of course, never mind that it was a Jew who began the whole christian religion in the first place, but why let piffling details like that get in the way of self-righteous bigotry? I was taking on the whole goddam heathen world with my misguided scribbles, baby!
What the actual fuck, Tony’s brain?!
Anyway, in 2019 I was no longer a christian, and Tati and I had the idea to revisit this comic strip. We would rewrite and redraw it from the ground up. And this time, it would simply be about some silly piggies living their lives in that universally awkward way that many of us around the world do, no matter our colour, race or creed. Life is messy and unscripted for all of us, and we’re all just trying to do the best we can.
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by TONY SINGLE
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I enjoyed all three. Exactly as the weather can be. Funny!
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Thank you, Monica! 😊
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The weather is indeed as you predicted. ENJOYED them all.
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Thank you so much!
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Haha this is cute and really good. Awesome job you two. 🙂
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Thank you, Maria! 😊
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Nicely drawn and droll.
Christ a’mighty, Tony what wuz you thinking back then? Ah well, as Someone, said after a long and full seven days working straight- ‘We all make mistakes.’
AKA ‘Return Of The Pig Tales.’
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I totally agree with you. What indeed was I thinking? It’s not something I’ll ever live down, I think.
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Ha! This is an accurate picture of our local weather forecasts.
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Same for us too! 😛
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😻
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Of the 3, I like the first one best. Color detracts here. It doesn’t help send the message.
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That’s a fair assessment. Thank you, Fred!
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Evolution! Love it
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We hoped that people would get the joke. Yay! 😆
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Long live your anthropomorphic piggies!🐷
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Aw, thank you, Luisa! 😊🙏
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You’re most welcome!
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I love those isolated showers. I’ve seen it happen, as clearly demarked as that! Snow too. Coastal micro-climate!
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I’ve seen that too! It’s kinda cool actually! 😋
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The best was one New Year’s Eve, and a sharp dividing line. Snow/No Snow. Unfortunately we were driving into the Snow
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Still, that would have been quite the sight!
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