Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 09, 2005

Transcript:

"Hey, did you mess with the 'Dickie the Cockroach' comic strip I drew?" "I didn't even know you drew a comic strip." "Yeah, it's about this cockroach with no tolerance for stupidity. If you say something dumb, he ties you up and slaps duct tape over your mouth... But someone erased Dickie from all the strips I drew." "Hey, maybe it's one of those Frankenstein-type situations where your creation came to life, rose off the page, and marched off to terrify the villagers." "Oh, mna... What a tragedy that would be." "Why do you say that?" "Because me and you live on the real comics page, and this place is just filled with folks who utter inanity after inanity... If Dickie got loose here, there's no telling what havoc he'd wreak." "Ms. Guisewite will not be please."