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	Pearls Before Swine (comic strip) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearls Before Swine is a comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, formerly an unhappy lawyer in San Francisco.
		Pearls Before Swine is controversial, largely due to its dark humor.
		Pearls is also a "meta-comic" in that it often satirizes the comics medium, and allows its characters to "break the fourth wall" and either communicate directly with the author or with characters from other strips.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine_(comic_strip) (2169 words)

	Pearls Before Swine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearls before swine is a general expression, indicating that something sophisticated is lost on an uncultured audience.
		Pearls Before Swine - the English title of Coroner's Pidgin, a 1945 novel by Margery Allingham
		Pearls Before Swine - a song by The 77s on their 1990 album Sticks and Stones and again on When Numbers Get Serious
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearls_Before_Swine (337 words)

	Pearls Before Swine - About the artist
		While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips.
		Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year.
		Pearls Before Swine was nominated in each of its first two years as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 2004.
	www.unitedmedia.com /comics/pearls/html/about_author.html (198 words)

	New Cartoon: Pearls Before Swine
		The new cartoon "Pearls Before Swine" by Stephan Pastis is as close to an original idea as you are likely to find on the comics pages these days.
		Pearls is described on the site as, At its heart, Pearls Before Swine is the comic strip tale of two friends: a megalomaniacal Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better.
		The title of the strip comes from the New Testament, and is taken from the phrase, "Don't cast your pearls before swine." In this case, Rat believes that he is an endless source of wisdom, and that it is wasted upon Pig, who is rather slow.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/comic_strips/88622 (404 words)

	Pearls Before Swine - Contact the artist
		The strip then launched in newspapers in January 2002, and eight months later, in August, I was able to finally quit the law profession altogether.
		The pig was taken from a strip I used to draw about an attorney, called "The Infirm." In one strip, I had an attorney defending an evil pig farmer, and I liked the way I drew the pigs.
		Pearls was a web-only strip from November, 2000 to December, 2001.
	www.unitedmedia.com /comics/pearls/html/contact_the_artist.html (1202 words)

	Pearls Before Swine
		In the flurry of the moment in Muscatine, during the pearl button rush, the value was on the shells themselves, not the pearls.
		A pearl is known among the Greeks for its oriental brightness: and a pearl was in ancient times greatly valued by the Latins: for a pearl that Cleopatra owned was valued at two hundred and fifty thousand crowns: and theword is now borrowed from that, to signify the most preciousheavenly doctrine.
		Pearls Before Swine was nominated in each of its first two years as by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 2004.
	www.karipearls.com /pearls-before-swine.html (1685 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		The comic strip is basically a tale of two friends: a megalomaniacal Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better.
		Instead of some dumb punchline the scenes before the last punchline in the comic strip seem to be funny as well.
		Instead, he spent close to an hour talking to me about my strip and cartooning, treating me as a full-fledged member of this cartooning community, when in fact, I was just a nobody and he was a giant in the field.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/02/style/comics080902.htm (3341 words)

	Stephan Pastis, Creator of Pearls Before Swine
		Still with comics tumbling around in his blood, Pastis drew a popular comic about the escapades of a law student entitled “Rosen” for the university paper.
		He continued to develop comics and came up with the first attempt at Pearls Before Swine, with the disparaging Rat and naïve Pig as the feature characters, in 1997.
		Pearls Before Swine proved a success and made its newspaper debut in January, 2002.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/12933/98620 (470 words)

	Pearls Before Swine News
		Pearls Before Swine: Wizard of Is, and Patty Waters: Yo...
		I wish to register my dissatisfaction with the comic strip 'Pearls Before Swine.' In particular, I was disgusted by one recent strip in which the rat, head tilted upward, claimed to be looking up Blondie's...
		This is in regard to the obscene comic 'Pearls Before Swine.' We read the comic when it first appeared in The Star and found it quite boring.
	www.topix.net /who/pearls-before-swine (605 words)

	Pearls joins U-T comics \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The new strip, drawn by artist Stephan Pastis, offers a sort of a “Seinfeld”-like animal ensemble sharing what the author describes as “caustic commentary on humanity's quest for the unattainable.” The strip centers on the foibles of megalomaniacal Rat, slow-witted Pig, the activist Zebra, and Goat, the reluctant brain.
		The strip, which began as doodling by the bored author during law school classes in 1992, was first syndicated in 2001 and now appears daily in 385 newspapers.
		Pearls Before Swine will take the place of the strip “Frank and Ernest,” whose artist, Bob Thaves, died Aug. 1 at age 81.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060904/news_mz1c04pearls.html (163 words)

	Crescent Blues \| Artist Interview: "Stephan Pastis: Animal Attitude"
		Pearls Before Swine now appears in about 200 newspapers worldwide as well as on Comics.com.
		One controversial strip showed a television screen reporting the deaths of Israeli school children during a bus bombing.
		Stephan Pastis: Before the strip was in the newspaper, I was only on Comics.com.
	www.crescentblues.com /8_9issue/int_pastis.shtml (2157 words)

	books about: swine (extraordinary successfully ratvolution) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Pearls Before Swine first appeared in my local newspaper comic page about 1 1/2 years ago I must admit that I thought it was quite stupid.
		This is my favorite comic strip, and have been entertained by it from almost the beginning...
		Pearls Before Swine was nominated two years in a row as Best Comic Strip of the...
	www.very-clever.com /books/swine (1280 words)

	Greeley Tribune - News
		It's called "Pearls Before Swine," and the fast-growing comic strip begins today in the Tribune.
		The comic comes to Greeley as the result of a readers' poll in which Tribune readers were first able to suggest comic strips, then vote on the finalists.
		"Pearls Before Swine," a sometimes dark, sometimes irreverent, nearly always funny comic strip with the name from a Bible passage, won easily.
	www.greeleytrib.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060508/NEWS/105080070&template=printart (538 words)

	CNN.com - Getting the funnies - Jul 7, 2005
		Yet the comics are generally taken for granted -- when they aren't the source of complaints.
		There are any number of comic strips giving the page energy nowadays.
		Admittedly, the comics pages are still filled with sclerotic holdovers such as the slow-motion daily car accident called "Mary Worth" or the created-by-committee "Garfield" or the list-list-list-unfunny punch line "Cathy." (Cathy Guisewite, you were so funny on Carson.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/07/07/eye.ent.comics/index.html (953 words)

	brykmantra.com » Blog Archive » Comic Strip Fun
		In yesterday’s strip, a bald man in a suit sits with a microphone in front of him, and watches a scorpion approaching him on the table.
		Then when I saw the Pearls strip, it was the exact same strip, except without the GF characters.
		Sure enough, Monday’s strip showed GF artist Conley playing Battlefield and talking on the phone to his editor, who was telling him that: a) Some Pearls strips were accidentally Fedexed to him, and b) That he had missed his submission deadline, and had better submit something really quickly.
	www.brykmantra.com /?p=365 (450 words)

	books about: pearls (administration reconnection programming) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pearl Jam is truly one of the greatest band of the 90's if not the century.
		Pearl Buck, who grew up in China and was there as a child while the Empress was alive, draws from the attitudes of the country people towards their almost mythical ruler "Old Buddha." While Buck takes liberties with some of the history, the story is essentially correct while giving an...
		Pearl Cleage, in her fourth novel, BABYLON SISTERS, has done an outstanding job of dealing with real women issues through using a combination of the thriller and romance genre.
	www.very-clever.com /books/pearls (1362 words)

	On The Media- Strip Down?
		He may be laughing now but just a few years ago the idea that a strip like Pearls could find a place on the comics page and win the Reuben as well, in less than three years at that, really was inconceivable.
		I felt that the strip was something different on the comics page, and I felt that the title would reflect that.
		His strip, Get Fuzzy, is in over 500 papers and is the fastest-selling strip in comics history.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_020405_strip.html (1331 words)

	Comics.com - Comics Update
		Greg is the talented artist of the comic strip "Luann", a funny and touching strip that brings to life the daily drama of being a young woman, including all the joyful discoveries and torturous experiences of adolescence.
		She was born in a spoof fairy-tale strip called Cobblestones I came up with in the early 90s.
		There are occasional strips where you see Joe playing his guitar or Molly with her violin, but I work music subtly into the corners quite often.
	members.comics.com /comics_update/0804.html (2781 words)

	JD Bliss - attorney career resources and lawyer work life balance tools: Success Story: Stephan Pastis: Attorney Turned ...
		JD Bliss (JDB): Your comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” made its official debut in 2002 when you were still an attorney.
		I first drew Rat, one of the main characters in Pearls Before Swine, while I was bored during a law school class on the European Economic Community.
		In 1997 I came up with the concept that today is Pearls Before Swine, by pairing the character of Pig, who is gentle and guileless, along with Rat, who is arrogant and self-centered.
	www.jdbliss.com /e_article000325658.cfm?x=b4882cn,b2sR0d1B,w (981 words)

	Cheese-N-Rice: Daily Online Comic Strip
		Pearls Before Swine is the hilarious new comic strip tale of two friends: an arrogant, egotistical Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better.
		Smart, witty, and sometimes painfully honest, Pearls Before Swine mocks the flaws and shortcomings of human nature with cynical humor.
		This marks the 21st collection of Adams' wildly popular comic strip, Dilbert, which is featured in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide.
	www.cheese-n-rice.com /books.php (511 words)

	CNN.com - A rat, a pig and some really dumb crocodiles - May 4, 2006
		The title comes from the Bible, Matthew 7:6 ("Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet") -- and the interaction between know-it-all Rat and oblivious Pig.
		It's full of silly puns, pop cultural references, parodies of other comic strips and left-field ideas, such as talking representations of the male and female symbols on restroom doors.
		More recently, the strip has gotten a big boost from newspapers wanting to fill the hole left by the temporary run of "Calvin and Hobbes" (tied in with "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes") and those dopey crocodile characters, who moved in next to Zebra (or, as the crocs say, "zeeba neighba").
	www.cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/books/05/03/pastis.pearls/index.html (1088 words)

	Amazon.com: Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury: Books: Stephan Pastis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Often, comic strips issue smaller collections with fl-and-white Sunday strips, then, later, compile two or three of these into a larger "treasury" which is no different except for color Sundays.
		It reprints strips from both of the two previous "Pearls Before Swine," but Stephan Pastis adds to this with both an unusually detailed introduction that explains how the strip got started and with comments on many individual strips.
		Pearls Before Swine is, in my opinion, occasionally funny and occasionally not, but the hilarity of Pastis' "on" days outbalance the "off".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740748076?v=glance (1464 words)

	Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury
		Comment: Pearls Before Swine is, in my opinion, occasionally funny and occasionally not, but the hilarity of Pastis' "on" days outbalance the "off".
		Comment: When Pearls Before Swine first appeared in my local newspaper comic page about 1 1/2 years ago I must admit that I thought it was quite stupid.
		My brother brought it over one day and I became curious at how he could sit laughing in the corner over a comic strip that I thought to be useless.
	www.fungames.com.au /product-detail/9/book/0740748076 (717 words)

	Amazon.ca: This Little Piggy Stayed Home : A Pearls Before Swine Collection: Books: Stephan Pastis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pearls Before Swine is an impressive comic strip success story.
		Back before even the first Pearls Before Swine book came out, when I only saw the strip on the internet, I told Stephan Pastis by email that his strip was headed for success.
		His strip has great moments of almost insane humor, making me wonder just how weird his thought processes really are.
	www.amazon.ca /This-Little-Piggy-Stayed-Home/dp/0740738135 (984 words)

	Comics: The Man Behind 'Pearls Before Swine' - Arts Extra - Newsweek - MSNBC.com
		Pastis is a 37-year-old former lawyer and the cartoonist behind the morbidly hilarious daily comic strip “Pearls Before Swine,” which appears in 225 papers nationwide and has been collected in four briskly selling books.
		It’s pretty darn funny too, a pearl on the newspaper comics page, wedged among the many unfunny strips of artists who died or retired years ago but somehow remain surprisingly prolific.
		Rat, the gravitational center of the "Pearls" universe, is a callous megalomaniac.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/8424854/site/newsweek (700 words)

	Amazon.com: Pearls Before Swine : BLTs Taste So Darn Good: Books: Stephan Pastis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Smart, witty, and sometimes painfully honest, Pearls Before Swine mocks the flaws and shortcomings of human nature with cynical humor.Pearls Before Swine has been syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since January 2002 and now appears in more than 100 newspapers worldwide.
		Pearls, on the other hand, is almost always truly funny, punctuated by inspired, laugh-out-loud, laughing until it hurts moments.
		Pearls is full of painfully bad puns, dark comedy, and a brilliant perspective on the silly nature of man.
	www.amazon.com /Pearls-Before-Swine-Taste-Good/dp/0740734377 (1360 words)

	ComicBookSites.com - Links to Comic Strips Sites and Resources
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