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Whistle Pig

Whistle Pig

02/04/09 at 09:59 PM by AbsoluteINK

Authors' note: -- The story of Whistle Pig, a book by Chris Fafalios of the band Punchline and his good buddy Tony Hartman

Chris and I describe Whistle Pig as “a children’s book for people who used to be children”. I think this is as accurate a way to describe the book as it is a very cool sounding/looking sentence. We started writing Whistle Pig as a way to join creative forces on a tangible product, the way we had on several Youtube projects for Chris’s band Punchline and our own cartoon series “Texas Toast” over throughout 2006 and 2007. We decided a book would be a great outlet for such silliness. We wanted it to be in “children’s book” style, the way books by the likes of Shel Silverstein and Roald Dahl were, while having content and...[read more]

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10:02 PM on 02/04/09

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this is just plain awesome.

Check out Chris' band Punchline at www.absolutepunk.net/punchline or www.myspace.com/punchline

You can buy Whistle Pig at www.whistlepigbook.com

Contact the cover artist at justin@girlmeetsbear.com

We want to personally thank Tony Hartman for being so amazingly helpful on this project. Despite my complete ineptitude with computers, he persevered and helped create a truly wonderful feature. Support these guys.

-the AINK team