The Waiting Pig/Portrait of a Waiting Pig
Written and Illustrated by Andy Conlan (as A. Patrick Conlan)
Published by Charlie Fox (2004), Gracewood Hollows Books (2009)
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Black and White Illustrations - Gracewood Hollows Books has Dust Jacket
ISBN 9780476003217 (Charlie Fox)
ISBN 9780473152543 (Gracewood Hollows)
It's the book that was so nice I made it twice. Morgan Pig spends his life waiting for the great event that is promised to us all. Not content to recognise the mediocre happenings of the normies around him as something to "settle" for, he prepares for his inevitable rise to glory by purchasing the right hat, drinking the right beverages and looking disdainfully at everyone around him who are content to live their miserably ordinary lives.
Written and Illustrated by Andy Conlan (as A. Patrick Conlan)
Published by Charlie Fox (2004), Gracewood Hollows Books (2009)
Hardcover, 32 Pages, Black and White Illustrations - Gracewood Hollows Books has Dust Jacket
ISBN 9780476003217 (Charlie Fox)
ISBN 9780473152543 (Gracewood Hollows)
It's the book that was so nice I made it twice. Morgan Pig spends his life waiting for the great event that is promised to us all. Not content to recognise the mediocre happenings of the normies around him as something to "settle" for, he prepares for his inevitable rise to glory by purchasing the right hat, drinking the right beverages and looking disdainfully at everyone around him who are content to live their miserably ordinary lives.
No, this low level existence is not for Morgan. He is waiting for something magnificent to happen, and he is ready at all times for "it" to arrive.
I had made several errors in the original Charlie Fox edition, and was not able to put them out of my mind until I had released an abridged version five years later, under my own imprint. Along with new cover art and a dust jacket, the new edition has the events of Morgan Pig's demise in a different order to the original, with the backgrounds and foregrounds of most pages redrawn.