Pig might be one of the funniest, most naive stars of Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine, and these are some of the beloved ...

She was well known for her 20 slim volumes about an anthropomorphic pig family — for emergent readers, ages 4to 6 — that began in 1979 with “Tales of Oliver Pig” (illustrated by Arnold Lobel).

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2019 is the Year of the Pig. Though our porcine friends are only the zodiac star once every 12 years, pigs have always been popular in children’s tales and games.

But at least they got a movie deal out of it. An anthropomorphic pig that is main character Jade’s adoptive uncle in Beyond Good and Evil, Pey’j loves eating and is an accomplished mechanic.