Manhog

Manhog is a grotesque, animalistic figure appearing in Jim Woodring's surreal, wordless comic strip 'Jim,' inhabiting the strange dreamlike world of Unifactor alongside Frank. A recurring antagonist, he embodies base instinct and brutish hunger in Woodring's allegorical universe.

Few characters in alternative comics carry quite the unsettling, dreamlike weight of Manhog — a creation of the singular Jim Woodring, who unleashed this creature upon readers in Jim #3 in 1989, right at the fertile crossroads of the Copper and Modern Ages. Published through Fantagraphics, Woodring's fiercely independent home, Manhog inhabits the same strange, wordless universe as Frank, Pupshaw, and Whim across titles like Jim, Frank, and Tantalizing Stories — a cosmos where the rules of waking life simply do not apply. Over roughly fourteen years, this figure carved out 22 appearances that have made him one of the most memorable presences in underground and art-comics circles, proof that Woodring's pen conjures things that lodge permanently in the imagination.