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Pearls Before Swine (also known as Pearls) is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.The series began on December 31, 2001. [1] It chronicles the daily lives of an ensemble cast of suburban anthropomorphic animals: Pig, Rat, Zebra, Goat, and a fraternity of crocodiles, [2] as well as a number of supporting characters, one of whom is Pastis himself.
Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Taste So Darn Good: March 2, 2003 ISBN 0-7407-3437-7: Strips from December 31, 2001, to October 6, 2002. Title is taken from a line Pig said in the January 12, 2002 strip and cover features him eating a BLT. This Little Piggy Stayed Home: March 1, 2004 ISBN 0-7407-3813-5: Strips from October 7, 2002, to July 13, 2003.
Stephan Thomas Pastis (/ ˈ s t ɛ f ən ˈ p æ s t ɪ s / STEF-ən PAS-tiss; [2] born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and former lawyer who is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He also writes children's chapter books, commencing with the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.
A film was made in 1999, Pearls Before Swine, starring Boyd Rice and Douglas P., directed by Richard Wolstencroft. There is a Pearls Before Swine comic strip, a Pearls Before Swine American psychedelic folk band, and Pearls Before Swine is an alternate title for Kurt Vonnegut's novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
Strips from 2006, including a foreword by Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine. Silent but Deadly: Another Liō Collection: August 1, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7407-7742-4: Strips from 2007, including a foreword by Wiley Miller of Non Sequitur: Liō's Astonishing Tales: From the Haunted Crypt of Unknown Horrors: August 18, 2009 ISBN 978-0-7407-8541-2
As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke, and Pearls Before Swine. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Captain Easy, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, and Terry and the Pirates.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Kurt Vonnegut's fifth novel, was published on April 5, 1965, by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. [1] A piece of postmodern satire , it gave context to Vonnegut's following novel, Slaughterhouse-Five , and shared in its success.
and then put something in references like Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Taste So Darn GoodMarch 2, 2003 ISBN 0-7407-3437-7 which I cut/pasted from the books section MJ56003 05:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC) WP:CITE. A commentary by Pastis is OK, but what we really need are third party sources.