Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 04, 2017

Have you tried meet up?

You have us, Stephan.

Somehow I don’t think the President Rat strips were made 6 months ago.

It really is.

mm-hmm

creative types are usually not all that social.

Kind of difficult to make friends when you’re constantly fantasising about a rat, a pig and a goat… with a croc and zebra or two thrown in for variety.

So that’s why I have so much time on my hands.

I work just as hard on my comments.

And the mad monk replied:Matthew 11:30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.Matthew 7:6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs

We all know that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” So in what is destined to go down in the history books as a heroic at of selfless patriotism a few of us are going to have to lay down our lives to be kamikaze “friends” with Pastis. This madness that is PBS must stop before even more innocent comic strip readers develop PTSD. Now who is with me in volunteering to befriend Pastis so he doesn’t have the time to write his little comic (and I use that term loosely) strip?

I’m Angry! I’m an Angry Scientist! SheepInTheBigCityGuy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ao4WTcMtY8 (Not mad scientist) Sheep In The Big City cartoon

Me don’t think friends would be an issue for writing………..Stephan’s jet setting around to give speeches could be……………

We’re missing the biggest laugh -“work really diligently.” You know he’s still working an hour before deadline!

Ouch

As a cartoonist I can (sadly) say… this is very true!

And no internet, I guess?

I came out as a Friend of Pastis (FOP) 2 years ago.

Rat and Stephan had this conversation over 6 months ago.

There was a claim on this site that Bill Amend had hurt Pastis’s feelings when Paige made a comment about Pearls not being a good comic.

I don’t see how, considering that Pastis says far worse things about himself and his own comic weekly.

Works for me.

That, and no social life whatsoever.

I love that Rat is just CONSTANTLY drinking beer.

I dunno, once you’re six months ahead, you still only have to do one strip a day to stay there. It’s not like he does six months’ every day.(Just feels like it.) :-)

The social life of an introvert is filled with designated quiet.

But we all know how Cartoon-Boy hops around the country, selling his wares (so to speak) and delighting easily-pleased crowds of PBS fans, living the playboy (with a lower-case “p”) lifestyle!

Are the strips really done by Staci?