Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 22, 2006
Transcript:
"Looks like 'Pearls' finished sixteenth out of twenty strips in this newspaper's comics poll... the over-65 vote is just killing you." "'Pearls' Cartoonist Stephan Pastis" "What do you want me to do? Draw a strip like 'Pickles' about a couple of older people just to pick up votes?" "'Pickles' finished first." "I lost my glasses, Opal." "Check your face, Earl."
NJ Lyon over 12 years ago
Ah…first appearance of Pastis’s hat.
NJ Lyon over 12 years ago
Irrelevance!
KZ71 over 10 years ago
That’s the Oregonian! When Foxtrot announced they’d stop doing dailies, the Oregonian wanted to shrink the comics page. They took a poll to see who’d not make the cut. Pearls finished sixteenth and Pickles won… and the comics page never changed.
Whoo, my hometown paper!
Zebra almost 7 years ago
DRUNK MUCH
dom cos about 6 years ago
Pearls should’ve placed higher
NErDysprosium over 5 years ago
Did you know that Pickles is drawn by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and if you look closely, you can sometimes see our temples in the picture frames! Fun fact!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deseretnews.com/article/865588438/Mormon-cartoonist-draws-Pickles-from-life-marriage-aging.amp