 The Book!
Allow me to introduce my new comic book: Chook Tails – Free Range Eggs. It has over 125 cartoons about chook behaviour from every angle, including some very odd ones.
To assist those of you from countries other than Australia, NZ and the UK, I will try to convey the concept of "chookness". Whilst the word "chook" has no hard and fast definition, we Australians and our Kiwi neighbours (the New Zealanders) use the word "chook" to mean a rooster, hen or barnyard fowl in general, and the word "chicken" to mean a young "chick". To sum up, any Australian who calls a chicken a chicken is probably sickening for something.
This is pure Aussie humour. If you're not a chook owner, or even if you are, some jokes might go right past you, but if you scratch about long enough, you're bound to find the worm in the end. If you're really mystified, drop me a squawk or a cluck at alan@chooktails.com and I'll try to explain my sometimes dry (occasionally to the point of being arid), weird or age-related humour. I am, alas, a baby boomer, and having survived the sixties and seventies might help explain where some of the more strange jokes have their origins.
I really enjoyed drawing these cartoon (toon) strips and I hope my Aussie sense of humour gives you a chuckle wherever you are from. If the satire and species slander on these pages doesn't raise a laugh or three you have permission to knock me down with a tail-feather!
It's rarely heard these days, but there is an ancient and powerful Aussie curse which was frequently employed way back when many Australians kept a chook-pen in the backyard and when deadly red-back spiders lived in the dunny (toilet) which was also to be found in the yard. It goes like this:
May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down!
So buy my book or receive an Australian's curse.
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"You're bound to have a cackle over Alan's cartoons. You might even fall off your perch laughing!"
Alanna Moore, author of 'Backyard Poultry – Naturally'.
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