History ComicStrip / PugadBaboy

* AuthorAvatar: [[WordOfGod Medina says]] that he identifies himself with Dagul (for his serious side), Utoy (for his child-like behavior) and Polgas (for his adventurous side).

* BeamMeUpScotty: One strip referenced a common (mis)quote from ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'': "Et tu, Brutus?" The actual line is: "Et tu, Bruté"?

* ShoutOut:
** Many, often to Western pop culture such as ''Wiseguy'', ''Franchise/StarWars''', ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'', ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', ''Film/{{Predator}}'', Creator/DCComics and and Creator/MarvelComics, and ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''--Bab at one point even quotes "The Gospel of [[Music/JohnLennon John]]": ''Imagine all the people... living life in peace''.
** Other shout-outs are based on Philippine pop culture, like the superheroine ComicBook/{{Darna}}, and sometimes local celebrities and politicians appear for some AdamWesting.
** Elements of Japanese pop culture referenced include ''Anime/VoltesV'', ''Series/KamenRiderBlack'', and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Samurai_%28TV_series%29 The Samurai]]'' (''Onmitsu Kenshi'') -- all examples of GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff when they aired. Dagul waxes nostalgic about pretending to be Shintaro from the last series, which was a black-and-white show.
** Various TV trends like [[SoapOpera telenovelas and Asian dramas]] have also been referenced through the years.
** The nonsensical title ''Pugad Baboy'' (as pigs don't nest) is likely a reference to the [[{{UsefulNotes/Philippines}} Philippine historic]] site Pugad Lawin ("hawk-nest"), where the ''Katipunan'' launched the Revolution. In a weird, RealLife case of RecursiveAdaptation, historian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambeth_Ocampo Ambeth Ocampo]] would claim that in the 1996 debates of the National Historical Institute during the centenary of this revolution, [[{{Malaproper}} historians tend to drop "Pugad Baboy" when they wanted to refer to Pugad Lawin]].

* DirtyCommunists: Noli averts this, though he's technically a NPA guerilla. That said, some of his comrades in the mountains still try to act the part.

* In a PoliceBrutality joke about local cops' warning shots being the same as opening fire, the cop blasting away yells "Manigas ka!" which a footnote translates as "Freeze!" But the literal translation is "Stiffen up" e.g. like a corpse, so basically "Drop dead".

* PunnyName[=/=]MeaningfulName: Most of the characters.

* CarnivoreConfusion: An unusual case. Apart from Polgas, most dogs bark and behave like "normal" dogs and are treated as such—to the point where humans still ''eat'' them in the ''Pugad Baboy'' universe. (For context: Stray dogs in the Philippines are occasionally killed, cooked and eaten, often as accompaniment to beer-drinking sessions.)

''Pugad Baboy'' debuted in the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' on May 18, 1988, as one of the young paper's first comic strips. From 2004 to 2009, it also had full-color Sunday strips. After 25 years, [[ExecutiveMeddling controversy forced Medina to leave]] on June 6, 2013. On June 17, it [[http://www.rappler.com/pugad-baboy resumed]] as a {{webcomic}} for the Philippine news website Rappler. Due to the web-friendly format, it was now oriented [[{{Yonkoma}} vertically]] instead of horizontally, and for a time had alternate choose-your-own punchlines. It concluded on March 1, 2018 and returned to its previous newspaper format via the Inquirer's longtime rival, the ''Philippine Star'', on March 5 2018. After one year, the comic is no longer in Star since March 9, 2019. There's no official announcement yet when Medina will continue working on the comic. He still attends local comic conventions and his [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheOfficialPB/ Facebook page]] and [[https://mobile.twitter.com/kartunero?s=09 Twitter account]] remain active where fans can order his books from him.

** Senator Cabalfin, who is the embodiment of the Philippine CorruptPolitician. However, on occasion, his portrayal is sympathetic, such as when Tomas, Bab, and Igno plan a PeepingTom raid on his compound, intending to peep on Cabalfin's maid in the shower.

* [[ADogNamedDog A Bobcat Named Bobcat]]: From the ''Apo Hikers'' arc. Also a TalkingAnimal like Polgas.

* {{Fartillery}}: Many strips portray this, but Kules the engineer was the most memorable.
---> '''Kules' Arab boss:''' "I own ten oil refineries."
---> '''Kules:''' "Well, I have only ''one'' oil refinery."
---> '''Kules' Arab boss:''' "What does it produce? Benzene?"
---> ''-Kules farts, causing the Arab boss' cigarette to explode-''
---> '''Kules:''' "No. Methane."

* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]]:

* SnarkBait: In-universe, Dagul is the usual target of Brosia's jokes.

* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: In ''2078'', according to Chewbaboy, a tour-guide from the future an a clear Expy of [[Film/StarWars Chewbacca]], Japan bought most of American real estate and turned it to a gigantic golf course, and people from Arab Gulf countries, now bereft with oil, are now working as contract workers in Japan.

''Pugad Baboy'' debuted in the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' on May 18, 1988, as one of the young paper's first comic strips. From 2004 to 2009, it also had full-color Sunday strips. After 25 years, [[ExecutiveMeddling controversy forced Medina to leave]] on June 6, 2013. On June 17, it [[http://www.rappler.com/pugad-baboy resumed]] as a {{webcomic}} for the Philippine news website Rappler. Due to the web-friendly format, it was now oriented [[{{Yonkoma}} vertically]] instead of horizontally, and for a time had alternate choose-your-own punchlines. It concluded on March 1, 2018 - and returned to its previous newspaper format via the Inquirer's longtime rival, the ''Philippine Star'', on March 5.

* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: discussed in certain strips. One has Tomas' claiming that if 1.2 billion Chinese would let's say, relieve themselves, this would cause massive flooding. Unfortunately for him, Mao hears this, clearly pissed.

* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: In ''2078'', according to Chewbaboy, a tour-guide from the future an a clear Expy of {{Film/StarWars Chewbacca}}, Japan bought most of American real estate and turned it to a gigantic golf course, and people from Arab Gulf countries, now bereft with oil, are now working as contract workers in Japan.

* StupidSurrender: In one arc, the armed henchmen of [[spoiler:Atong Damuho in Baguio]] didn't surrender because of the combined military might of the PMA cadets and the NPA rebels. No, it was the appearance of CampGay men from St. Louis University that made them decide to give up. (The henchmen were dressed as Igorot tribesmen and thus wore mostly just loincloths.)

* StupidSurrender: In one arc, the armed Igorot henchmen of [[spoiler:Atong Damuho in Baguio]] didn't surrender because of the combined military might of the PMA cadets and the NPA rebels. No, it was the appearance of gay men from St. Louis University that made them decide to give up.

** The nonsensical title ''Pugad Baboy" (as pigs don't nest) is likely a reference to the [[{{UsefulNotes/Philippines}} Philippine historic]] site Pugad Lawin ("hawk-nest"), where the ''Katipunan'' launched the Revolution. In a weird, RealLife case of RecursiveAdaptation, historian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambeth_Ocampo Ambeth Ocampo]] would claim that in the 1996 debates of the National Historical Institute during the centenary of this revolution, [[{{Malaproper}} historians tend to drop "Pugad Baboy" when they wanted to refer to Pugad Lawin]].

** The nonsensical title ''Pugad Baboy" (as pigs don't nest) is likely a reference to the [[UsefulNotes/Philippines Philippine historic]] site Pugad Lawin ("hawk-nest"), where the ''Katipunan'' launched the Revolution. In a weird, RealLife case of RecursiveAdaptation, historian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambeth_Ocampo Ambeth Ocampo]] would claim that in the 1996 debates of the National Historical Institute during the centenary of this revolution, [[{{Malaproper}} historians tend to drop "Pugad Baboy" when they wanted to refer to Pugad Lawin]].

** The nonsensical title ''Pugad Baboy" (as pigs don't nest) is likely a reference to the [[UsefulNote/Philippines Philippine historic]] site Pugad Lawin ("hawk-nest"), where the ''Katipunan'' launched the Revolution. In a weird, RealLife case of RecursiveAdaptation, historian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambeth_Ocampo Ambeth Ocampo]] would claim that in the 1996 debates of the National Historical Institute during the centenary of this revolution, [[{{Malaproper}} historians tend to drop "Pugad Baboy" when they wanted to refer to Pugad Lawin]].

** The nonsensical title ''Pugad Baboy" (as pigs don't nest) is likely a reference to the Philippine historic site Pugad Lawin ("hawk-nest").

* SeriesFauxnale: The final two Rappler strips have Polgas jumping into a ''Film/DoctorStrange'' portal to parts unknown...no, actually just the Philippine Star.

OnceUponATime in TheEighties, a [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] architect named Apolonio "Pol" Medina Jr. came home from the Middle East and made a comic strip, inspired partly by a friend who bought a pig farm and partly by other things from his life and work. ''Pugad Baboy'' (Filipino for "pigs' nest") is a [[NewspaperComics newspaper comic]] about the [[SliceOfLife daily life]] and adventures of a community of fat people in a Manila suburb.

* SeriesFauxnale: The final two Rappler strips have Polgas jumping into a ''Film/DoctorStrange'' portal to psrts unknown...no, actually just the Philippine Star.

** The nonsensical title ''Pugad Baboy" (as pigs don't nest) is likely a reference to the Philippine historic site Pugad Lawin ("hawk's nest").

''Pugad Baboy'' debuted in the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' on May 18, 1988, one of the young paper's first comic strips. After 25 years, [[ExecutiveMeddling controversy forced Medina to leave]] on June 6, 2013. Weeks later, it [[http://www.rappler.com/pugad-baboy resumed]] as a {{webcomic}}. It has produced merchandise, book compilations, original graphic novels, and a short-lived [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action TV comedy series]] in the 1990s.