The Chicken Manifesto. What you see collected here is my first ever newspaper-style comic strip. It was published in 2002, in the monthly Crossfire magazine at Deakin University. The idea behind the strip was this: The comics in Australian newspapers when I was at uni (and today?) were awful. Syndicated American comics that should have died years ago, that had lost their humour (if they ever had it at all). If the ‘joke’ of a Fred Basset strip was that he was bigger or smaller than another dog, I could do without jokes.
And so that was the plan; to create a comic strip of such nonsensical proportions that no one could ever accuse it of having a proper joke or punch line. Nonsense for nonsenses sake. It was the anti-basset.
Even now, I’m still fond of The Chicken Manifesto. I hope you like it too!
If you have any questions, limericks or non-sequiturs, you can contact me at dave(at)sundayink(dot)com.
Marmalade!
David Piper
