Cerdos egoístas

by Andy Riley

Malvados, traviesos, tramposos... y soberanamente egoístas. Así son los protagonistas del nuevo libro de Andy Riley, unos perversos gorrinos que no temen ni a Dios ni al Diablo. Coleccionan todo tipo de fechorías, desde las más nimias travesuras hasta las más crueles: llevarse todo el papel higiénico del baño, derretir con un secador de pelo ese muñeco de nieve hecho con todo el cariño del mundo, vomitar en el asiento libre del autobús en el que se iba a sentar una señora, o bloquear la salida de emergencia de un edificio en llamas, mientras se echan tranquilamente una partida de cartas…

Tras el éxito cosechado por la saga de Los conejitos suicidas (más de 30.000 ejemplares vendidos en España), Andy Riley demuestra una vez más un sentido del humor de lo más irreverente y políticamente incorrecto.

Genres: Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Animals, Art

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Andy Riley is a cartoonist and scriptwriter from Britain.
He drew a weekly strip cartoon for The Observer Magazine called Roasted, which is also collected in hardback edition. So far his books have sold around one and a half million copies and have been published in eighteen countries, producing calendar, greetings card and poster spin-offs. Lucky Heather is his self-published mini-comic.
His comedy scriptwriting is done in partnership with Kevin Cecil. They have won two BAFTAS, for the sitcom Black Books in 2005 and the animated special Robbie The Reindeer in 2000. They created and wrote the sitcoms The Great Outdoors and Hyperdrive for the BBC, and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel. Other television writing credits include Little Britain, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Come Fly With Me, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack The Pony, The Armstrong and Miller Show, Bob and Margaret, Spitting Image, Harry and Paul, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round, Man Stroke Woman and Big Train. Their Radio 4 panel game, The 99p Challenge, won a Sony silver award.
As well as writing comedy, they are experienced writers of feature-length animation: their credits include Gnomeo and Juliet (released February 2011) and The Pirates! (in production at Aardman). They did an uncredited rewrite of Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride.
Andy is originally from Aylesbury but now lives in London. He used to be the stage dancer for The Pod, Julian Barratt’s comedy techno band which was the forerunner of The Mighty Boosh. His hobbies include urban canoeing.
Despite rival claims on the internet, Andy Riley is the true originator of the tradition of cross-dressing at the Towersey folk festival.

Reviews

[Alejandro Orradre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gracioso, sin más.

No obstante algunos dibujos contienen unas verdades sorprendentes.

[Rachael Hewison · Rating 5 out of 5]

My boyfriend has the entire Andy Riley series in our bathroom for some 'toilet reading' so I've been working my way through the collection. Selfish pigs is the last one we have and I feel a little like I saved the best till last.

The Bunny Suicides work so well because they are outrageous and funny. Selfish Pigs is much the same, without the morbid overtone. It's a simple context but it works so well. Some are particularly realistic and others are shocking. A few in this book vary slightly to Riley's other cartoons as they have some speech from the pig, which makes him seem even more lifelike.

It is a fantastic, quirky book that can be read in a few minutes.

[Pouline Bjerregaard · Rating 5 out of 5]

A laugh out loud book, that captures the selfish nature of people... erh, I mean pigs.
I was howling through every page. The only sad thing; there hasn't been published a sequel, and that the book was short.

[Pihla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved all the Bunny suicides -books, so I rushed out to buy this with high expectations as soon as I saw it was out. Unfortunately, it didn't really live up to those expectations. It felt like some of the ideas were not fully thought out. A slight disappointment.

[Ape · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh how this made me laugh. It's great fun, especially when you're in a bah-humbug mood. Although the one with the mamma mia DVDS is probably not so much a selfish pig one as a kind gesture to the rest of the world =).

[Ellice · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have known some pigs like this. This is a very witty book of cartoons.

[K. McDevitt · Rating 2 out of 5]

I finally gave this one a quick read today! I'm not sure it's quite the humor I'd expected. While a lot of these are definitely selfish and funny (pigs trapping geese in a cage then putting on geese costumes to eat the bread crumbs people throw into a pond) some are more on the mean side (trapping people inside a room that's on fire).

[John Bonilla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Otro libro que "leo" en la feria del libro del zócalo, aunque me gustó mucho más el de los conejitos suicidas, este era menos gracioso

[Ted · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only mildly amusing.

[Bassie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really laughed my ass off, best way to deal with a heat wave!

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

I kinda felt the same with bunny suicides like, they're not haha funny. Idk.

[Saboteadora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pues eso, cerdos egoístas.
Si quieres echar un rato entretenido con un cómic de viñetas independientes es una buena opción. Verás muchos cerdos haciendo muchas cosas egoístas, molestando por el placer de hacerlo y fastidiando de todas las formas imaginables, hasta chinchando a Darth Vader o a Neil Armstrong. Unas viñetas son más divertidas que otras, como es normal.
Me lo he leído en 15 minutos aproximadamente.

[Päivikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Kieron huumorin ystäville

Andy Rileyn sarjakuvien siat eivät ole mitään söpöjä pikku saparoveijareita. Nämä törkyilevät possut ovat rehellisen ilkeitä, vihaisia, ylipainoisia ja itsekeskeisiä. Ne tupakoivat, kännäävät ja syövät lihaa. Silti niiden hulvattomassa törkytyylissä on jotain röhkäisevän ihanaa.

Siat ovat itsekkäitä – aivan kuten mekin. Kirjaan mahtuu käsittämättömän sikamaisia tapoja keskittyä omaan napaansa ja tunkea oma pikku kärsänsä joka paikkaan. Haluaisitko istua sian takana leffassa? Et? Ei kukaan muukaan."

http://www.gummerus.fi/fi/kirja/97895...

[Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh my Goodness!!! These pigs are so selfish! Most of the cartoons in this book feature just one pig in each scene but some have two pigs and one cartoon features 11 selfish pigs. I think these piggies are very mean - for example one little piggy tries to make Jesus pay a fake toll when he is carrying His cross up a hill to be crucified. This book covers a wide range from Christian themes to popular culture. I bought the book when it made me smile during the Borders store closing sales of September 2011. I would like to read the Bunny Suicide books by the same author/artist.

[Nofuture · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mizantropova biblia!
Už sa vám stalo, že vás ľudia poriadne nasrali a vy ste im to chceli vrátiť? Ale fuckt že poriadne nasrali a fuckt že poriadne vrátiť? Že take niečo sa nepatrí? Že kto do teba kameňom ty doňho chlebom? Tak prasiatko im to všetkým vráti za vás a aj s úrokmi. Kašlať na politicku korektnosť, kašlať na ohľady, slušné správanie a všetky tie ostatné spoločenské konvencie...
Pohodlne sa usaďte, predstavte si toho najväčšieho pablba, ktorý vás v poslednej dobe nasral a užívajte si tú predstavu, že sa toto všetko deje práve jemu...
Mueheheheheheheeeeee....

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Menos mal que no me sentí identificado en (casi) ninguno de los chistes. Arañó las cuatro estrellitas. Y supongo que si me hubiera generado alguna carcajada en vez de una seguidilla de sonrisas, se los ponía de cabeza. Pero como las tiras sí me resultaron ingeniosas y simpáticas pero no lo que se dice graciosas, graciosas, le amarreteo una estrella. Aunque voy a seguir viendo qué onda este inglés loco.

[Corrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

My mom and I started flipping through this book at the library. We were laughing so hard that the librarians were giving us evil looks. We had to check it out and take it home. Hysterically funny.

[Nina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing beats bunny suicides, but this comes quite close...

[Jezzer Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another skewed view of society from the author of "Book of Bunny Suicides."

[Meaghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. Not that funny. I don't think I even laughed once. Go back to drawing suicidal bunnies, Andy Riley. That's what you're best at.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointing. It seems like the idea was nice but the author didn't do much with it. Don't know if he was rushing to complete the book.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Take The book of Bunny Suicides and replace bunnies with pigs and suicide with selfishness and we have another home run for Andy Riley.

[Luke Mais · Rating 5 out of 5]

OKAY NA WHY SPEAKING IN CAPS DUNNO THIS BOOK IS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY WELL YA GET THE IDEA? IT WAS A GOOD BOOK LOTS OF !BEEP! SWEAR WORDS IN IT.

[Bill C · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing like padding the numbers. I got a couple snorts out of it.

[Eric T. Voigt · Rating 5 out of 5]

MARVELOUS.

[Nina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ihan sama tyyli kuin Itsemurhapuput: hauskaa oli! :)

[Aisha Prevost · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anything with pigs is good for me. This was even funny so really liked it :)

[Mariela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Esta bien. Es entretenido y los cerditos son super malos

[Dianawinbooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

so human, creo que es excelente para pensar en los cerdos egoístas que podemos ser los humanitos