Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 31, 2016

Take a sabbatical like Garry Trudeau and Bill Watterson did and work on drawing skills.

And now he’s a Clowngressman.

“Clowno the Congressman.” Isn’t that redundant?

You sure Clowno isn’t someone else who has been in Congress?

Where I live, that’s what our politicians really look like.

This way everyone can imagine Clowno as their own Congressclown.

I prefer it when congress doesn’t get anything done. As bounty hunter Dorfman said to Special Agent Mosley in Midnight Run, after Mosely confiscated his cigarettes for about the third time — “Why don’t you quit? It’ll be cheaper for both of us.”

Ate at Denny’s earlier this evening. There’s a special Halloween notice taped up on the door that says masks must be removed before entering. From this I conclude that Clowno doesn’t eat at Denny’s.

Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair…

Being in Congress, that’s the way you do it. Not many people playing guitar on the MTV anymore.

More Reuben’s than skills? I don’t think so.

Tis nice when Congress does not get things done………that way they do not cost me more money or what is left of the freedoms we once enjoyed………

nice to know you were at wrigley, stephan…hope you had a good time!

Aren’t congressmen usually proud of not getting anything done? Of course they’ll say otherwise.

Gaijinrabbit needs to read the 7th Amendment and contrast that with the number of US agencies and corporations that can levy fines without potential for a trial by jury.

Congress not getting things done is underappreciated, since there are many they should not have done: see Obamacare.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain

Toon Boy’s the real Clowno.

Now that was interesting. Stephan took two really scare characters mixed and made something that looked almost harmless.

Politicians have no shame

Hilarious!

That’s okay, Stephan. It’s close enough to Henry Waxman to be credible.

Republicans are proud of their not doing nothing for the last 8 years.

Stephen has done lots of caricatures: Jeffy from Family Circus, Cathy from her own strip. All the celebrities that matter.

Who in their right mind wants Congress to “get anything done”? They could handle what the Constitution requires of them in a couple of weeks and then go home!

I think Stephan intentionally covered his face so Clowno can represent almost every Congresscritter.

When was Trump ever a congressman?

define getting things done? One can submit a bill, get a vote and still not pass things either cause it won’t pass with enough votes or it won’t pass the senate or the president veto’s it.

That is still working in my book, getting things done isn’t about the amount of new laws they pass. It is about doing what your suppose to do, if all of congress was sitting around not submitting bills then I’d say they are not working.

For me it isn’t about what is passed but what is submitted.

Wait till you retire. Society believes that you are absolutely useless, and worse case, a parasite. It’s kind of funny when old guys, like Einstein, work their asses off in old age to overcome this stigma. Me, I go out early in the morning and wave to my neighbors as they start their commute to the salt mines.

THE CLOWN PURGE IS TONIGHT

Everytime I read his strip I laugh out loud, so he must be doing something right. It is not the drawing that is funny, it is the comparisons of one thing versus another and he always has rat to do his dirty work!!!

Never got anything done? Sounds like he’s related to Hillary…

…I can never understand why Ringo is also running from the screaming girl fans in the sixties news reels. Surely out of the four, he’s the safest.

…unless they’re after his wallet.

My bad.

Well if you’re so clever, Rat. Why don’t you take over the strip?

Nope. Thought not.

xxx

Criminy, 52 comments and nothing about Jack in the Box Hamburgers? What’s wrong with you people!?

Cartoon-Boy can’t draw caricatures, Rat? Then, who is that guy in panel 3 who has “limited skills”? Some pettifogging shyster?

You drew Trump perfectly