the banal pig

i was doing this, and funnily enough, today i was doing the same fucking thing

I’ve fancied it up a bit though.

seeing the original post, i realised i’ve let this blog’s 2 year anniversary pass by without noticing. thanks for reading pig lovers! cheers!

here’s another preview from banal pig 4, the beginning of the jolly bear old testament story, and is the link page from the untitled cat strip featuring good old untitled ghost. it’s the same ink wash style i used for the jolly bear summer special 2, although i’m drawing over it in pen too to give it a tighter finish, and each of the images will be a full page. i’m doing a bit of digital grayscale on one or two of the strips too to give things a different look. nice.

you’ve not seen r&b until you’ve seen it performed by creepy animal robots.

so we’re back from salzburg, austria and it was pretty amazing. one of my favourite places we went was the museum of folklore, which was basically the museum of crazy wicker man style crap, including this massive hat with loads of birds on it.

There was also loads of great paintings like this one, and a lot of carved stuff and really beatifully painted wardrobes and religious icons:

we also went up in a cable car, which went from the floor to the top of the untersberg mountain, which was over a mile high (i was shitting it a bit, and i still dont know how it works), saw a alpine horn band rehearsal and i found my new favourite drink:

it had a weird salty flavour, but was very moreish.

So here’s this week’s exercise for the bristol comics forum thingie. this time it was an action, a genre and a place that were randomly selected. mine were sensory deprivation, david cronenberg and the kitchen, but being the trickster i am, i stuck happy vampire bat baker in there too.

elsewhere and otherwise, i have started scanning the finished pages of banal pig 4 on my A3 scanner. unfortunately, as regular pig fans will recall, the scanner doesnt work on my computer so i have to lug the big bastard over to pc-owning friends pcs to do it. anyway, here’s a nice preview of untitled cat for ye.

also, i’ve decided to do a handy size (A5) 80 page collection of banal pig comics 1-3, and i’m digitally remastering (rescanning) the banal pig 1 artwork, as it was a bit lo-res and rough due to my naivety. i’m doing this as i’m fed up reprinting them, and we’re running out of room on the stands at cons. should be nice.

so here’s a picture apropos of not a lot; it’s something we’ve being doing at the bristol comics forum, a little exercise that jim medway told me about where you randomly select an animal, an emotion and a profession and mine was happy vampire bat baker, just to get everyone doing a bit.

also, i’ve just received the hardback trains are mint collection, which, as i have alluded to before is the second best comic of all time, so if you have bought all the banal pig comics, hunt it down and enjoy it.

ive also started the jolly bear old testament story in banal pig 4 which i’m really excited about- it’s another ink wash kind of thing; i think if you like jesus you will love it!

so, the take up for my online shop has been less than enthusiastic, which i can only put down to the credit crunch, which affects us all (98p for a salad capsicum!).
If you are umming and aahing about buying a comic, please be advised that here at banal pig comics we always take pride in delivering excellent value for money, and as such, every purchase will also come with a unique original drawing of your choice, certain to be a collector’s item of the future, or a badge, whatever you want.

so dont delay, everything must go! and other vulgar phrases, click the links right for a good time.

thanks for listening

i’ve put doctor octopus 2 up on the banal pig funnies. although i published it in the completist comic in the fan club pack, it’s up here in it’s original full colour glory.

so here’s a few more images for you from bp4, featuring lickle bastard getting a spanking, cat dad getting a ball chewing from his ex-wife, feeder beefing, a telephone conversation between a fireman and phil the social worker from the cat dad story, and fez man getting into bother again. the quality’s a bit ropey as they’re just photos, but you get the idea.

kindest regards

ste.