Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 13, 2013

Wow! That’s what I ended up with the first time I tried origami, too!

a. k. a. “Origami boulder”

Fold a paper a few times widthwise inward and you get an origami pamphlet.

How to make an origami rug:

1. Lay the paper on the floor.

It looks like an origami swan with its head tuck in.

Touche…?

probably picked up the skill in prison…..

I can do that one! I can do that one! And I never even studied origami (like Rat, I’m guessing).

Maybe now the Syndicate is in jail and wasn’t able to post todays strip thereby forcing a repeat.

So, just like that they’re out of jail? Steve Dallas was never THAT good ;-)

I wonder when the trial is.

weren’t these guys in jail a second ago?

Next Rat will take up the art of making balloon animals – mostly worms and snakes.

Jail yesterday, home today without even a mention … I’m starting to question whether this strip is based on real-life events.

I ended up with that too! It took me a few tries though!

Make it out of rice paper; you can eat the mistakes.

The date on the comic itself is the date it is set to run. It is ALWAYS the current day that it’s run. Even when it was written 10 years ago. For examples, look at today’s Doonesbury. He’s currently on vacation. Or, if you don’t believe that one is a repeat and has been for this entire week, as I’m sure you won’t if you never read it, read Peanuts. Then explain to me how Schulz wrote it from the grave.

This isn’t a rerun. I just read every 2012 comic.

How come everytime there seems to be a “rerun” someone has to complain about it. Are you at work every single day to include Saturday and Sunday? Is the rest of your day ruined because of it? If you don’t like to re-read a comic then don’t… or you can get some talent and write your own comic with a new one 365 days a year. Get over it.

Rat should be thrown back in the tronk just for that.

Origami spitballs?

An origami lawyer.

Um, what are they doing out of jail?

Modern art.

Yeah, that’s pretty much the extent of my origami abilities.

Lovely, Rat.

LOL xxx

He is a true artiste.

Paper death star.

Too late Rat!Larry the Croc has beaten you to it, judging from the Frequently Asked Questions on this website.

You were a printer with a ton and a half paper cutter…when you were ten?

First time I did origami I ended up with a star. Course that was also the last time cause I got so frustrated with it that I gave it up after it took me like two days to get the stupid star.

That’s about as far as I’ve gotten too…

I had an origami business once, but it folded.

RE “rerun”: The strip was drawn in 2012, but that doesn’t mean it was run then. Pastis has been know to run strips 2 or 3 years after drawing them. He probably finished the prison storyline yesterday, needed a couple more strips to fill the week, and found this one in his files.

It’s an origami boulder