Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Funny Fish Finger Friends Lose Money’ By Swatpaz

Funny Fish Finger Friends Lose Money follows Francie and Bertie, two friends who even though they’re called fish fingers, more closely resemble an apple and a frog. Anyway… they’re hungry but Francie can’t find his coin purse. Convinced he’s been robbed by the fish, he sets off to find the truth.

Based on a series of self-published books by David Ferguson aka Swatpaz, The Funny Fish Finger Friends is a delightfully bizarre story that manages to sneak in a subtle moral lesson amidst its absurdity: don’t rush to judge! Ferguson’s design is equally manic, characterized by a loose, ‘scribbly’ design, a clashing kaleidoscope of colors.

But why do the fish finger friends look like an apple and a frog? In Ferguson’s first comic book about the duo, the origin story goes like this: “One morning a mysterious man went in a disused field and flung a frozen fish finger up an apple tree and it got stuck in an apple and then he threw another one at some frog spawn on a lily pad on a pond.” Makes sense, right?

Undoubtedly, there will be more Funny Fish Finger Friends shorts to come, providing a welcome distraction from our daily chaos.

Ferguson is an artist and animator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Since 2005, Ferguson has worked on numerous tv shows, commercials, games, music videos, and web series, for clients that include BBC, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Paypal, and Disney.