A Pictoral History of the Pacific Northwest Including the Future 
a book by Jack Gunter, 148 pages in color

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When Jack Gunter invented a black & white pig as an observer of his whimsical history paintings he gave it the ability to fly. According to him, the species, Sus Essex Aviatrix, was present in the days of the dinosaur, perhaps hastening the demise of the giant reptiles. A saber toothed variant walked with wooly mammoths and Neanderthals during the ice ages as it refined its flight gift over Elliot Crevasse. A Vietnamese cousin was domesticated and put on a leash during the 1990’s, coinciding with the brief appearance of the pigtail as a popular hairstyle.

Now, twenty-five years after the pig’s creation, thanks to silicon chips and science, Jack Gunter’s glimpses of Sus Essex Aviatrix as it marches (or flies) through time has been shoehorned into a history book that takes the reader from God’s first thought to the present, and into the future.

And now you can own one with a flick of a cursor! One hundred fifty pages of Jack’s unique, disturbingly accurate vision of Earth’s history—explained from the pig’s point of view and illustrated through a career’s worth of whimsical egg tempera paintings, beautifully reproduced in a book you will be proud to display on your coffee table or nightstand.

In “A Pictorial History of the Pacific Northwest Including the Future,” Jack Gunter’s pig rivals Kurt Vonnegut’s character, Billy Pilgrim in its ability to dance through time at will. Sus Essex Aviatrix floats, lonely, in empty space before the Big Bang, and perches at the brink of the Denny Palisades, observing the paleethnological traces left by the species, Homo Sapiens, during its brief reign as dominant life form on the planet Earth. In the middle, Sus Essex is a silent witness to the march of civilization as it lurches into a murky future ruled by cable TV news and opinion shows.