Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 06, 2022

Not a close second, more like a fourth or fifth.

Stephan forgot “I’m God of comics”

Is he practicing going into politics?

Blessed is he who blows his own horn, for, verily, it SHALL be blown!

I think Pearls Before Swine is…… A comic for stephan to express his thoughts and feelings

I wonder how many copies of this that weasel Reed Jackson is going to get in the mail. I mean, other than mine, of course. :-)

Stephan – a lot of us might want to touch your poll with a ten-foot pole.

I predict a lot of people using microdot technology to give an honest answer.

Boy is THAT an old joke. I think I first saw it as a mimeographed paper that said, approximately:

Complaint Form. Explain your problem in the space provided. Be complete. Neatness counts! [ ]

He might get more results if Stephan gave us the weasel’s e-mail address.

Just enough space in the blank for a poop emoji…

you know we love you Steph!

It’s in my current Top 3. I don’t want to shackle myself to it any more than that, though.

How about adding two more options:[] All of the above[] None of the above

i have a stupid question: who is reed jackson?

He forgot to read it for pun-tuation.

Stephan, The Publisher thanks you for the free advertisement .Look it up gang tis a real address. But Stephan where is the box for : MORE CROCS ? ………Croc Power !

just the beasts comic strip for me

As an European I have to ask: Why did you put Kansas City in Missouri?

Welcome to the Hungarian reality.

This reminds me of the prank where many ( many, many, many, many ) years ago, a guy on a radio station told the kids to tune the radio to that station, take the knobs off the radio and send the knobs to the station.

Parents were later invited to come to the station to claim their radio knobs from five huge barrels.BBWWahahaha !

At least one… [innocent face]

Hope Reed doesn’t read too much into this ‘survey’! :D

I’d love to help out. Really I would. This comic is in my top 44 each day. Some days it number 1 butt it’s often number 2 LOL Almost always in the top 40 and if it were a song that would be really good. I’m gonna need a go fund me to buy a stamp and my printer needs toner to print that panel. Lord knows I can’t afford the paper.

Reminds me of a suggestion box form!

Be honest. Who did? I mean, besides The Count and Countess? (no kidding)

Steve, you up there in the comic elite of all time. but, for God’s sake, turn your cap around the right way ;).

a. I haven’t read comics from a newspaper in about 20 yearsb. I probably don’t have any postage stamps to physically mail a form

And I’m an old guy!

So, Stephan, when did you declare war upon your editor? ;)

I will check other, I am probably one of the few who isn’t a Calvin and Hobbes reader

This is one of my favorite comic strips. Pickles is perhaps my favorite.

Reminds me of Stephan Colbert’s original show, during the years of Bush the Second. He would open interviews with “George W Bush, great president or the greatest president?”

C&H hands down best of all time.

I think I can fit a skull-and-crossbones emoticon in the space.

all the above…

What is “newspaper”?

This is one of my favorites , but nothing beats " Buckles " ever , and with that said , I " love the Rat " : )

As much as I’d like to fill out the form, I’m so sick of surveys! I can’t shop, eat out, or have service work done without being coerced into filling out a survey to tell them “how they are doing”. Stephan, you are doing just great, if you weren’t, I wouldn’t be reading your strip and making this comment.

Stephan, what is the beef? Or, where is the beef?

Nice try Steph. So who’s the weasel?

I would NEVER wish ill upon Stephan!

Actually the greatest of all time is Big Nate and pearls before swine.

A reader poll indicates . . .

Ur-b-an sprawl

I’d go with a my #2 favorite. Garfield trumps all IMO.

Pearls Before Swine puts a smile on my face in the morning!!

I’ll go for B — Close to Calvin and Hobbes

Now that Queen Victoria is only a rare occurrence, I have to go with 2.

Say no more, fam!

Heh. I could write an entire novel of pointed criticism, load it all onto a microchip, and paste it in the blank.

I’ll choose “E”…

Only RAT would think that…bad RAT!

Stephan forgot to include the shipping and handling fee: $1, cash or check

They got crazy little women there….so there go da crocks

My feedback is this: Why don’t you have different characters team up sometimes?

Good Luck with that…..

Option 4: BS

Our town of about 500 felt we had arrived when we got a Dollar store.

Googled that address. It is the publisher of “The Far Side”. Bill Watterson is Pastis’s friend and rival, remember? He once drew something in Pastis’s strip. This is a prank Pastis is playing on Watterson.

Whats not to love about a cartoonist who breaks the 4th wall (and frequently lets his creations pound him for his puns)? Happy Belated Cartoonist’s Day Stephan!

Pastis can’t afford a new suit or an electric shaver,so keep those small contributions coming!

Dear RLG, That is because, that’s where it is.

11th and Walnut? How did Pastis get so “uptown” on us?

Tied with Calvin and Hobbes, and Dilbert as well.

Good lord, it’s real. Andrews McMeel is a real thing! And it’s at 1130 Walnut Street!

Sorry Pastis… you’re not up to Calvin & Hobbes standard yet.

To Rat: You should keep in mind that Stephan literally, holds your life in his hands.

[X] My reason for living

“One of my favorite comic strips” would be my write-in vote…if there was enough room!

I am for number two…and three, or is B and C?

Got an email address for the weasel?

It’s so funny. Editor must be evil and won’t let him publish some good strips that he must think is not suitable for children, but the rest of the world wants to see. The stuff you see on television and radio and the internet is not suitable for children, but somehow they allow it. At least the comics and some churches are the last groups to keep things safe for us!!! Good job legitimate comic strips!!!! P.S. I vote for “A”

I see that the last option includes just enough space for the poop emoji.

I think a zero will fit nicely in the space provided.

It’s not a good comic and that’s what’s good about it.

God no, who will write the script! Not the woman who wrote Cathy!

I read this in the voice of “Hi, I’m Sy Sperling, president of hairclub for men.”

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It’s in my top 5 ONLY when the Crocs are featured!

Wow! Talk about your pushy, self-indulgent cartoonists! Shame, Cartoon-Boy!

And Cairo is in Illinois.

The last time I saw Paris, it was in Arkansas.

There is Newark, DE (new-ark) and there is Newark NJ (Nerk). There is Houston DE (house-ton) and there is Houston TX (hew-ston).

The name can be confusing. That said, it’s my hometown.

If there were a link to that form I would copy and paste into an email back to them. There is not even an e address listed for that so Steph is safe from Mr. Jackson getting feedback from this reader. My printer has not been hooked up for months.

Until I saw today’s panel I didn’t think Pearls deserved to pull up Calvin’s socks. But this is so brilliant.

Aw, there, there, little Stephan, you don’t have to be like that. We do LOVE you! Especially the Sunday Puns! We want to invite you to a party to celebrate! (Pssst, Rat, hide that bat!)

Well, it’s definitely above Calvin and Hobbes, but Little below Garfield.

I want to say D, but the options aren’t actually lettered. Or numbered …

It’s the best comic strip in the newspaper — was the best, when I still got the newspaper. But the newspaper made me too angry every morning. So, now I get my comics fix online.