FRANK's Woodring on those Manhog music videos

Back in July, I wrote a post about two Jose Gonzalez music videos that ripped off the Manhog character from Jim Woodring's Frank comics. I also wrote a post about it on the Comics Journal message board, and now Woodring himself has posted a comment there explaining what really happened.

I found out about those music videos after they had been made and released. The performer was giving promotional interviews about them in which he described them as being based on my work, which I thought was a little... brazen. At any rate, everything was worked out more or less to my satisfaction.

Woodring also politely refutes one message board poster's rather silly assertion that Manhog himself is a rip-off of Gilbert Shelton's Wonder Wart-hog, while noting that a human-pig hybrid in the 1973 Lindsay Anderson film O Lucky Man! "has haunted me ever since and undoubtedly contributed something to the wellspring of nastiness that emerged as Manhog."

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