Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 22, 2012
Transcript:
Rat: Who were you yelling at on the phone? Stephan: The people who color my Sunday strips. Rat: I thought you colored them. Stephan: Well. I do. But then my color file gets sent to some company that turns it into color plates for the Sunday paper. Rat: I don't understand that. Stephan: I don't either, really. All I know is that those guys are ultimately responsible for how the color appears in the Sunday strip. Rat: Why'd you get ticked at them? Stephan: Oh, they screwed up the color in a strip a few weeks ago, and I told them to be more careful. Pig: Will they listen? Stephan: Oh, yeah. I told 'em. "You don't mess with the color in MY strip. I'm Stephan Pastis, darn it." I think that really intimidated them. Rat: It sure did. Pig: I'm so pretty. Stephan: I'll get them for this. Crocodile: Whoa. Me must be more buzzed den me tink. "@*#@# you Stephan"
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
Sing along with Sherlock:“Picture yourself in a boat on a river,With tangerine trees and marmalade skies…”
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 12 years ago
Looks like Larry is well up with the current Buzz, for once.
margueritem about 12 years ago
Looks like they were shaking in their boots, all right…
margueritem about 12 years ago
You could have threatened to sic Lio and Ishy on them. (See today’s Lio.)
rf_eq about 12 years ago
looks like there was a pigmentation problem
zero about 12 years ago
…and yet, everyone BUT Stephan looks groovy ;-)
Hillbillyman about 12 years ago
Actually it looks like a bunch of third graders colored the last panel.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
Ha! So, you’re “Stephan Pastis, darn it”? How the mighty are brought low! And, BTW, can you quack like a duck (cf. Lio)?
Varnes about 12 years ago
The croc’s line cracked me up………You know, I’d love to see a week’s worth of strips colored like the last panel. It would be groovy, man….
knight1192a about 12 years ago
Why do I feel like that last panel oughta be an acid trip?
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Well, at least Pig is happy as a pig in…. um… blue stuff.
tigre1 about 12 years ago
Thank you, Pastis, and thank you all you groovy commenters.Yes…it took me back and showed me what color could do.
walruscarver2000 about 12 years ago
You mean it’s just a pigment of his imagination?
goalgo about 12 years ago
One of the kids in Bloom County managed to break into a computer once and turned Reagan black, anyony else remember?
rshive about 12 years ago
And for their next trick, they’ll make everything into B&W for a week.
Sandfan about 12 years ago
Pastis now has a two front war…Tatulli and the colorists. There will be blood.
brine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Two things you should NEVER do is yell at your Doctor or your Printer!!!
geekazoid about 12 years ago
See todays Lio!
MeGoNow Premium Member about 12 years ago
Hey! I wanted to see the zebras.
xall2h1 about 12 years ago
steven pastis looks like he is gonna throw up
jondelfin Premium Member about 12 years ago
And who gets roasted next week for misdividing “com/pany”?
blackdawne about 12 years ago
Watch out! The Big Green Meanies are coming!
bearguy about 12 years ago
I can see why Stephen is upset. The green face is one thing, but the pink outfit? Eeeeeek!
I do like the crocs though.
finale about 12 years ago
Did you and Sherlock know that that song WAS about drug and being high? Just found that out a few years ago.
Ermine Notyours about 12 years ago
Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
kenneth cronin about 12 years ago
love it!
Marc Schiffres about 12 years ago
Anyone know if the fourth panel is referring to an actual comic or not?
A_NY_Outlaw about 12 years ago
I wouldn’t be suprised if little Jeffy from FC isn’t somehow involved in this fiasco!
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 12 years ago
I didn’t know Peter Max was doing the Sunday coloring . . . ’splains alot . . . ☻
unca jim about 12 years ago
@underwriter; (from yesterday)“LOL, if you consistently check Snopes or FactCheck, and “reply to all” exactly how inaccurate those "fwd"s are…"Yeh, I USED to do all that (after making sure the ‘save alladdresses I reply to’ box is unchecked) but my SPAM quadrupled after that, so I quit. Talk about casting thy bread upon the waters…….
Matthew Davis about 12 years ago
I love the message the color guys wrote in the last panel (visible only in the color).
lakita_lover about 12 years ago
Uh…happy belated 4-20?
FlippySuper about 12 years ago
Take that lesson stephan
jshbarber about 12 years ago
Does anyone know if the color was actually messed up in one of his strips?
bornfree99 about 12 years ago
Pastis is turning into the hulk? he all green..
Hobbes vs. Woodstock about 12 years ago
This is why I’M not looking for a job as a cartoonist.
patsysutcliffe Premium Member about 12 years ago
I’d like to live in the 4th panel.
Popeyesforearm about 12 years ago
in my world this is normal.
TileComics almost 12 years ago
Is Stephan holding his pants up in frame 1?
m.l. almost 12 years ago
Pearlslover01 about 11 years ago
LOL $(#& you Sthephen in the sky
Nahte769(the new one) over 3 years ago
Man…. My one friend is like the croc in the last panel lol
Die Barney over 3 years ago
It says @#$%& you stephan in the last panel. I presume that it was rat who put that graffiti there.
Goat (from PBS) over 3 years ago
i think it looks better like that
Pyroshark Gaming almost 2 years ago
Too muc beer