As you all know by now, Pearls Before Swine is my favourite comic strip and if you ever have some time to enrich, you can take a look at a whole bunch of the cartoons i have shared over here. And usually he is just random or clever or biting cynically silly fun, but every now and then he draws a strip which makes you stop and go, "Wo!" and maybe even think for a [...]
Many of you will know of No_bob, the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin. But you may not know the story. In 2000 i flew to the UK to earn some money teaching [due to an unfortunate police clearance incident i only ended up doing five days of actual teaching which was a high-or-low-light of itself and mostly looked after old people or University professors, who were about equally competent] so that i could join Youth [...]
As many of you know i am a big Pearls before Swine fan and own all the books and am constantly inviting [slash harrassing] PBS creator Stephan Pastis to include the world's most famous stuffed dolphin in his strip. Usually just for laughs, but every now and then, Pastis nails something on the so-serious-it-punches-you-in-the-gut side of things and so when he tackles a pet peeve of mine, you know it's going to be good: As [...]
So in these two most recent Pearls before Swine cartoons, we get a great glimpse of the character of the two main, um, characters, namely Rat and Pig. Rat being the cynical, mean, vindictive one, i find that i identify with him way too often, and when i notice that i do, i usually have to do some kind of changing of my ways... although sometimes i wish i was this forward: Whereas Pig on [...]
Is this the best ever Pearls before Swine cartoon strip ever made? Quite possibly yes although it does require you have a bit of a history of foreknowledge to fully appreciate it. And to be honest, as much as i knew the skit it comes from, i had never watched the original til this very moment and it is incredible. Abbott and Costello and if you haven't seen this, do yourself a favour - this [...]
i used to receive me daily Pearls before Swine deliver to my mailbox, but recently this stopped happening for some reason... so now when i remember i dive into the site and do a little catching up [although this also bodes well for me when i order my next Pearls Before Swine annual because there will be ones i have not seen] and these two floated to the top when i did: Sometimes Stephan works [...]
It has been a while but here is a classic Pearls Before Swine misdirection [one of my favourite forms of comedic] to get you smiling: And a bonus one depicting Pearls creator Stephan Pastis working SO HARD to get to his intended punclusion: Gotta love the Pearls... and if you do... [For a classic stupid Croc Pearls, click here] [For more Pearls Before Swine strips than you can shake a very long stick at, [...]
A friendly anti-drug service announcement from our beloved punster-in-chief Stephan Pastis and the gang from Pearls before Swine: [For Pearls before Swine take on Solving the Energy crisis, click here] [For Pearls before Swine helpful tips on Cartography aka map-making, click here]
Once again, the punmeister Stephan Pastis of Pearls before Swine fame is giving it his best and poor innocent Pig is taking one in the head: [For another Pearls before Swine Pig + pun combo, click here] [For a whole list of some of my favourites, click here]
You know when you're sitting innocently in church and the bag/plate comes along for the offering and you feel guilty, but probably not because of this: [For Pearls before Swine and babies, click here] [For Pearls before Swine and Shtupidt people, click here]