Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 18, 2012

%$#@&*, now you have to start all over, Greg

He has hit rock bottom and started digging his way down.

Underground artist? Sounds like a Crumb to me.

Heck of a way to earn a living.

his landscapes are terrible

“Greg”? So that’s where Luann is drawn? :j

I wonder if he is painting a portrait of Father Mole?

Ah, the ever present can of beer in Rat’s hand.

Nope Mole a lisa hears mud in your eye

And don’t forget the Mentos for that dirty mouth

Pig has friends like Greg the Underground Artist?! Pig, what have you been hiding from us?

It’s even harder being an underground filmmaker.You can’t make light comedy….everybody always thinks your themes are dark.Hmmm…. but it might be a good place to make something deep….

or maybe…. dirty movies.

You can solve that by being an artist in the London subway system.

Shouldn’t there be an extra frame to this one with Rat holding a baseball bat Stephen’s head, threatening him for another bad pun.

He’s a deep thinker.

We need to see the hole picture.

Deep. Very deep.

His subject matter is deep – one might say “HOLY”.

I wonder if that’s Pig-Pen from today’s Peanuts strip down there going by his “pen” or in this case “brush name” Greg.

He is not really underground till you put the dirt on top of him, so get a shovel, quick!

Tell me, is the cartoonist even married?

don’t curse the dirt, praise the texture

Pastis…you have sunk to a new low.

Spit on it and call it art.

That’s really Toon Boy ( aka Greg ) down there, digging hmself in a hole.

Well well well.

Knowing Rat, He would grab a whole load of mud and throw it down the hole.

Along with a worm or two.

LOL xxx

Isn’t Greg wearing a beret?

Pig is showing his age. They aren’t called “Underground” any more, they are Independents.

With great art comes much suffering…some of it by the people who must put up with artists!

Except for the fact that it’s not Pig’s nature to do so, I would have expected him to get Rat to look into the hole for [the fictitious] Greg, and then get pushed in. Bwah hah hah hah hah!