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banal pig comics

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About Me

i trained as an artist and ended up with an MA in printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London. i soon discovered its not that easy to make a living as an artist, so after a few years started making comics which went some way towards easing both my artistic frustrations, and frustrations in general.my comicography, thus far is
banal pig comic number 1
banal pig comic number 2
banal pig comic number 3
jolly bear and summer special number 1
jolly bear and summer special number 2
the banal pig portrait anthology
ethel sparrowhawk
the banal pig fan club pack
banal pig funnies
check out my photos for pages of my comic- and also look at Banal Pig's sister comics, Gareth Brookes' Man Man Comics and the new Man Man website, Appalling Nonsensemy blog is here, at banalpig.com/blog and lastly my webcomic www.banalpig.com/funnies MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

small press and independent comics makers and readers, artists and creative types in general

Music:

jeff wayne's war of the worlds

Movies:

gummo, spinal tap, royal tenenbaums, napoleon dynamite, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, american movie, american beauty, american psycho, anything beginning with "american"...

Television:

Gladiators, the apprentice, you've been framed! Police, Camera, Action! (anything that ends in an exclamation mark)

Books:

all h.g. wells, sherlock holmes, diary of a nobody, anything a bit tasty from the victorian era.

Heroes:

daniel clowes, jerome k. jerome, queen, chris ware, robert crumb, stevie wonder, gareth van brookes, christopher guest, charles hawtrey, h.g. wells, jeff buckley, peter blake, dan wade, stanley donwood, radiohead, chris roantree, tony saul, tom jones, wes anderson, michel gondry...

My Blog

banal pig 4 previews

that's right, there's a few more teaser panels (that is, the ones i've finished) from banal pig comic 4 over at the banal pig blogalso, theres a new funnie up at banal pig funnies (well it's not stric...
Posted by banal pig comics on Mon, 26 May 2008 01:44:00 PST

Banal Pig Funnies at the Banal Pig Shop!

yes i have got my cheeks in gear and put all my comics in one place available to buy online, here at the banal pig shop and just added is my new comic, banal pig's funnies, which is a full-colour, li...
Posted by banal pig comics on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:03:00 PST

new banal pig shop now open

are you missing something in your life? do you feel a little bit incomplete? perhaps a little bit of retail therapy is in order! grab your purse and pop in to the banal pig shop and shop until you sto...
Posted by banal pig comics on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:12:00 PST

banal pig funnies no 1 on rok

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Posted by banal pig comics on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:29:00 PST

4 weeks of Banal Pig Funnies.

Calling all geeks, jackasses, nob-ends, ne'er-do-wells and of course you, the talented and attractive myspace user.please click the blue letters or type www.banalpigfunnies.blogspot.com into your bro...
Posted by banal pig comics on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:11:00 PST

banal pig’s Daily Funnies still going

if you havent already, why not click on the blue letters that say here and you will be whisked to my web comic, which i have been updating every day since October 14th, and will continue to update unt...
Posted by banal pig comics on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:58:00 PST

Banal Pig’s Daily Funnies starts today!

Banal Pig's Web Funnies is now up and running in earnest, and there will be a new strip EVERY DAY for the next month.There's previously published stuff on there too, if you cant wait for tomorrow's BR...
Posted by banal pig comics on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:19:00 PST

Banal Pig In Birmingham

Hi Friends!It's that time of year again, and Banal Pig Comics will be flogging our wares at the Birmingham International Comics Show, at the Thinktank, Birmingham this weekend, the 13th and 14th of Oc...
Posted by banal pig comics on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:26:00 PST

Banal Pig’s Daily Funnies!

Hi Myspace friends!Why not check out my new web page experiment Banal Pig Funnies? The idea is to create a newspaper-style, 3 panel strip to see how difficult it is to create a regular strip, as most ...
Posted by banal pig comics on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:19:00 PST

More New Pictures in Pictures!

Go look! New (old) strips in colour! Sweet!
Posted by banal pig comics on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:13:00 PST