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| Pugad Baboy | |
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 Cover of Katorse (2002), the 14th compilation of Pugad Baboy, which features all major characters of the comic strip series. | |
| Author(s) | Pol Medina, Jr. |
| Website | rappler |
| Current status/schedule | On hiatus due to author's health reason. |
| Launch date | May 18, 1988 (PDI) June 17, 2013 (Rappler) March 5, 2018 (Philippine Star) |
| End date | June 4, 2013 (PDI) March 1, 2018 (Rappler) March 9, 2019 (Philippine Star) |
| Publisher(s) | Philippine Daily Inquirer (formerly), The Philippine Star (formerly) |
| Genre(s) | Humor, political satire |
Pugad Baboy (literally, "swine's nest" in Tagalog) is a comic strip created by Filipino cartoonist Apolonio "Pol" Medina, Jr. The strip is about a Manila community of mostly obese people – "fat as pigs" (baboy is Tagalog for pig).
It started appearing in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on May 18, 1988, and was published exclusively in the Inquirer line of newspapers (Broadsheet Inquirer and its free concise sister tabloid called Inquirer Libre and tabloids Bandera and Tumbok.) Its popularity has spawned numerous compilations, a live-action television series, and merchandise such as T-shirts and figurines.
The strip not only showcases domestic life; occasionally, it features adventure, drama, and pure spoof sequences. More often, the strip mirrors the general sentiment of the Filipino people on relevant topics such as corruption in the government as well as Filipino pop culture. In this respect, the strip has been likened to Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury.[1] Sometimes, political satire is woven into some ordinary strips and adventure stories.
- ^ Quiambao, Cecilia (1993). "Pol Medina Jr. : It's A Swine's World." Archived October 20, 2004, at the Wayback Machine Originally appeared in Preferences Magazine Accessed on August 5, 2007