Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 09, 2020

Looks like Neighbor Bob has started a new business.

bars can be fun

It’s Rat that would drive Steven to drinking.

Give me a “Wallbanger”.

Should you drink while you read these? Probably.

To me it seems like the “hole” in this cartoon is the artist.

I should think it helps.

Don’t tell me Rat is actually complaining about having a bar in his house?

this one’s really off the wall…

There may be a cask of Amontillado involved

Then there’s the new bar at the bottom of the swimming pool. It’s a real dive.

I KNEW IT!

That’s good because I drink when I read them.

Somebody needs to get plastered.

I hear that bar is a great place to meet studs.

Lay off the absinthe.

So what do you drink Stephan ? Water , Beer , Wine , Bourbon ,Cow Fluid , Orange Juice , Ect. … Croc Power !

Pastis be 3 sheetrocks to the wind?

Nah, Stephan still hasn’t hit bottom.

Reminds me of the scene from “The Lost Weekend” where Don Burnham imagines he sees a mouse being attacked!

One how or another, someone’s getting plastered!

Serve walnuts instead of peanuts.

Nah, it’s the humble reader who needs a drink.

Try being funny

I have a really funny comment that uses a Double entendré about the cocktail and the hole in the wall…but it might not be appropriate since children might be reading this.

Are Butch and Sundance in there?

Rat: Do you THINK while you write?

Pastis: Sometimes. :D

It ain’t easy writing comics twelve weeks in advance.

Then I’m not eating at the restaurant on the other wall called the greasy spoon.

New York’s hottest hole in the wall is … Stephaon’s, this place has everything. Guests include a puppet in disguise (ALF in a trenchcoat), HoboCops, infamous gay running back Blowjay Simpson, a group of guys with afros and graduation caps, grown men in wedding dresses, jacked homeless guys in period bathing suits, a human fire hydrant, Gizblow the coked-up Gremlin, Furkel (fat Steve Urkel), evil chef Wario Batali, Germfs (German Smurfs), Sidney Applebaum the Jewish Dracula, a screaming geisha, Hanukkah cartoon character Menorah the Explorer, and DJ Baby Bak Choy.

Porky’s LOLOLOLOL

great one today! WHERE’S THE CROCS GONNA DRINK?

Rat got ‘em on the list — Rat got ’em on the list; And they’ll none of ‘em be missed — they’ll none of ’em be missed …

They got together where Rat hid them in a wall and opened a Bar.

Just realized I’m a masochist. I seem to read Pearls every day. All is not well…

SLOOOOOOOOW comic day, eh?

KEEP DRINKING

No, no, the final panel is where the fourth wall is broken in this cartoon.

Looks like the wall got kicked by a (Moscow) mule.

Sorry, late to the party.

Sounds like an idea. Let me run it by the wife first.

Cock, tail and a literal hole in the wall should probably warrant a visit from the comics censor.

I love that place!

Anyone want to Gang up with me to block this outlaw? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole-in-the-Wall

Rat’s own “Lost Weekend”!

What does he drink when he writes these?

There is another cocktail: SSUATW

Over 300 likes? Come on people! You want more of these???

Explains a lot.

That explains a lot.

Cartoon-Boy Confessions!

You wouldn’t like me if I were on the wagon, pard….

Does 99% of the time qualify as “sometimes”?

That answers a couple of questions.

I’m driving, could I just have a Dickens’ Cider?