A Trespass of Swine

the Porkopolis blog

Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.

The Vitruvian Swine

Vitruvian Swine

The Vitruvian Swine is a combination of two familiar and iconic figures in Western culture: the pig and Leonardo da Vinci’s illustration of Vitruvian Man.

Clare Leighton

Clare Leighton

Engravings by Clare Leighton (1899-1989) have been added to the Porkopolis Art Museum. The images first appeared in her book Southern Harvest (1942).

HER! [GIRL VS PIG]

HER! [GIRL VS PIG]

HER! [GIRL VS PIG] is a web comic by Chris Bishop. Gratuitously, beautifully, joyfully violent, this is the classic struggle of girl vs. pig. The Girl and The Pig are involved in interactions where they usually end up inflicting violence of some sort on one another.

Bacon Brothers

Bacon Brothers

Brothers in Bacon. Good music and good food seem to go hand–in–hand or is that hand–to–mouth–&–ear. Regardless, these are definitely four strips of sizzelin’ bacon!

Fengjing and Shar Pei

Fengjing and Shar Pei

The most distinguishing characteristic of both the Fengjing swine and Shar Pei dog breeds is the wrinkled skin, especially on the face and shoulders. This seems to be a case of convergent human–engineered evolution.

A random image of a pig, hog, boar or swine from the collection at Porkopolis.