Who IS HeroHog anyway?

I found the picture on the old Spumco website YEARS ago and never knew anything about him. I called him HeroHog and adopted that as my screen name on some forums. I later made an avatar¹ using the image on a Spumco "character doodle" page as a model. I had no idea that he was ever more than a doodle! Imagine my surprise at finding John Kricfalusi's blog site years later and discovering the TRUE origins of He(ro)Hog!
 

John's blog shows that : "He Hog is the world's most powerful pig" who has such cool super powers as; "X-Ray nipples", "Finger and Thumb breath" and he "has the world's most sensitive taste buds". John also says he is, and I am paraphrasing here, he is so smooth that "pants won't stick to him!" Please check out John's blog for pictures and details.

Like I said, I was using an avatar modeled off of He Hog and adopted the web handle of "HeroHog" for use on some forums. People kept after me to "put some pants on that pig" and I added a "modesty bar"² to the avatar to appease the prudes. They still pestered me to "put on some pants" and I told them "If I have to put pants on, I'm stuffing a sock in there!" and, not knowing the real He Hog was too smooth for pants, I came up with my final version of HeroHog³.

I hope John doesn't mind and posted a short version of this on his blog. I sure hope that He Hog becomes a reality as a syndicated TV show. I have always loved John and Spumco's stuff. I even bought You Eediot!, the Ren & Stimpy CD!

Hero Hog's Avatar history

1: Original Avatar

2: v2 with "Modesty Bar"

3: Final Version w/sock inserted

If all that wasn't enough...

Halloween 2003 (I was playing drums in the band at the club where this was taken that night)

and if THAT wasn't bad enough...

The wife and I at a West Virginia nightclub, Halloween 2006

Now ya know the story behind the origins of HeroHog!