Captain Goodvibes

Captain Goodvibes
Publication information
PublisherTracks Publishing Company
Soundtracts Publishing
Flying Pineapple Media
First appearanceMay 1973
First comic appearanceWhole Earth Pigalogue (Tracks Publishing Company, 1975)
Created byTony Edwards
Voiced byTony Edwards
In-story information
SpeciesPig
Place of originEarth
Notable aliasesThe Pig of Steel

Captain Goodvibes, a.k.a. the Pig of Steel, is the creation of Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards and an icon of Australian surfing culture from the 1970s. In 1992 Captain Goodvibes was named by Australia's Surfing Life magazine as one of "Australia's 50 Most Influential Surfers."[1] The character was inspired by American cartoonist Gilbert Shelton's underground comix character, Wonder Wart-Hog, a.k.a. the "Hog of Steel."[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference EoS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ John Jiggens. Marijuana Australiana : Cannabis Use, Popular Culture and the Americanisation of Drugs Policy in Australia, 1938-1988 (PDF). Queensland University of Technology. p. 44.