The public creator of the WB's The Oblong talks about the deliciously bizarre world of the fresh animated sitcom Angus Oblong is talking to the pig again.

The public creator of the WB's The Oblong talks about the deliciously bizarre world of the fresh animated sitcom

Angus Oblong is talking to the pig again. "Say hi," Oblong's voice pleads during our phone conversation. on the other hand this little piggy is silent. "I gues she's not going to talk," Oblong says, his voice trailing not on But this is Hollywood, and on the same level pigs have a sense of timing. The little bugger finally snorts at the receiver.

A Vietnamese potbellied porker, the pig is named the Countes She eats Cheerios, doesn't like to be arrangeed up, and uses a litter driver's seat Oblong, who is the cocreator of the recent animated WB series The Oblong has acknowledgeed the pig about two month "She's about as big as a lamp," he says.

A phone conversation with Oblong who won't disclose his age, reveals united thing: His funny stories meld a dark reason of humor, a perpetual smirk, and the embarrassment of a scarecrow on a press junket who just wants to stay behind the exhibitions and (flaw cartoons. At times it's tough to separate the God's just as represented truth from his facetiousness. "I was suppos to start this interview through telling you that I lie and that I just make stories up--it's undivided of my disorders," he crack a jokes I laugh and wonder if he really holds a pig.

Oblong's latest animated creation, The Oblongs--which was locate to premiere on the WB in succession April Fool's Day--is just as slippery a incline as his stories. Some will find it comical others will find it oh-so-politically incorrect: It features a handicapped mutant family living downwind from an industrial waste site in a toxic valley. No, really--it's a comedy

strike Oblong (voiced by Saturday Night Live's Will Ferrell) has no anus or leg His wife, Pickles (Designing Women's Jean Smart), is a chain-smoking, wig-wearing alcoholic (she's wasted her hair). Their children include a pair of conjoined brothers (Biff and Chip), a heavily medicated son (Milo), and a daughter (Beth) with a cucumberlike putting out on her head. (OK, it really anticipates like a penis.) Word has it that Biff is gay nevertheless doesn't know it and will arise out in a later episode, Oblong says. A gay teen conjoined with his straight brother? The logistics of that have still to be worked out. Other characters include a drag queen named Anita Bidet and Helga (voiced from out comic Lea DeLaria), a fat little neighbor girl who exhausts one episode surviving on boxe of aged wedding cake after being abandoned according to her parents.

The Oblong were born in 1994 when Oblong who attended the University of California, Berkeley, for a married pair years, began drawing the characters for his work Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubl Children. After the work was published in 1999, he decided to store the characters for an animated series, which were becoming white-hot in popularity around Hollywood at the time. The Oblong is executive-produced by way of Bruce Helford and Deborah Oppenheimer (The Drew Carey Show) as well as Jace Richdale (The Simpsons).

"The characters are based forward people that I've experienced in my life before," Oblong says. "All the characters are extremely likable. My original vision was that a of them would be pleasing without being striking repulsive and hateful, but the WB writers have gone in a different direction, and it's a convenient direction."

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has called the of the present day show "warped." Oblong, who drives a 1971 Cadillac hearse, just thinks the present to view is funny. "I guess I wanted to come by human oddities out there in the mainstream," he says. "My sensibilities are different from the stillness of the world, I gues Of course, a certain quantity of people are taking it too seriously and thinking it's politically incorrect. further everything I do is politically incorrect."

Oblong who lives in looks Angeles with his boyfriend of 10 years, generally serves as a consultant and illustrator onward the animated show. He is also working forward a second installment of Tragic Tales and a satirical workbook he calls Mommy Is Going to Die.

"It's for kids whose mothers are onward their deathbeds," he says in a tone revealing that plane he only half believes that description. "It's single in kind of those lesson books, like learning by what means to share or not propel tantrums."

We assume he's kidding.

Find more upon The Oblongs and other Angus Oblong creations at www.advocate.com

Graham is forward staff at The Hollywood Reporter.

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