Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 24, 2024

Who else thinks flat pig looks kinda cute.

You know what’s freaky? Baby Blues is actually right next to Pearls Before Swine for me on GoComics.

I’ve missed this kind of humor.

Pressed ham.

pig can drive?

I’ll probably skip Pig’s suggestion.

I seem to remember years ago that Pearls did a Baby Blues crossover when they had Rat babysitting the children.

Maybe Goat could use one horn to hook the keyring.

Stuck between panels, Pig is now ham sandwiched.

At least he knows where his keys are.

Nice one Stephan!!

Sorry, “Non Sequitur” is next for me.

Now you’re going to have to break the fourth wall to get him back into the fourth panel.

My next comic is Cul de Sac, but Baby Blues is there too.

I’ll bet rides a Harley-Davidson “Hog”!

Pastis had to squeeze Pig in there somehow!

So, no strip today? I hope they get Pig out before the Sunday strip.

Have you ever felt like you were stuck between two panels?

But we did Baby Blues first. We’ll move on to Calvin and Hobbes.

Weird. I had just read the Baby Blues strip…

Actually Peanuts follows in my playlist

My fear is dropping them down a sewer drain. I avoid them.

LMAO!

How about the time you dropped a $100 gift card to Arnold’s eclectic (and excellent) restaurant in downtown Cincinnati between the drivers seat and console of your Mercedes and it somehow slid under the seat darned near impossible (so far) to get out? Told to The Count by a very close Friend and maybe it didn’t really happen to you.

LOL for sure!

Pig should have gone around the other way to reach the keys from the bottom.

This is funny!

third-and-a-half wall broken!!!

Where’s a cartoonist when you need one?

nice 4th wall

Is that how you break the fourth wall?

This one actually made me lol

Good thing he wasn’t in-line with Sluggo’s dastardly curveball…

No, next up is Luann, then The Lockhorns, and then Baby Blues after that.

Really relatable, pig…

Shows what he knows. Speed Bum is the strip I go to next. Baby Blues is two after Pearls Before Swine!

This may be the best strip you have done. And no puns…or states…

cute

Does it count as breaking the 4th wall if Pig is stuck in it instead?

This strip was brilliant honestly.

Dang…I already read Baby Blues this morning. Gotta move on to Frog Applause, I guess.

Now that’s a fourth wall worth seeing…

Must have dropped them while looking in the rear view mirror putting on lipstick.

Nothing like breaking that fourth wall.

Best PBS in a long time!

Excellent Steph. Easily one of your best.

I love this paradoxical, break-the-fourth-wall stuff!

Already did that. Back to school shopping time for Wanda and the kids.

Whole new twist on breaking the fourth wall, eh? For me, it’s “Non Sequitur” next. “Baby Blues” was good today.

So is breaking the fourth panel the equivalent of breaking the fourth wall?

Good squish! I put my comics alphabetical so on to Pickles.

Goat is the key witness.

Maybe Pete in Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher can help.

Yay! The Fourth Wall is broken again! Walt Kelly’s Pogo characters often admitted they were in a comic strip.

Pastis hasn’t done one of these in a while.

I’m curious to know what kind of car Pig can and does drive

Baby Blues is one of those comics like Sally Forth where I am clearly not the intended reader, because I find both comics to be kind of boring and repetitive.

Sorry, Pig- POOCH CAFÉ comes next in my feed.

I got stuck in the couch once, looking for the remote.

The bottom line is, Pastis is going to have to draw him out of there.

ka-sidelined

I found the key to this whole border conspiracy thing

It’s requires a four panel discussion to properly address the issue

I am still laughing! A classic use of the art form, and poor pig is the perfect foil.

Overboard comes next for me, but I will see Baby Blues later in the day.

Baby Blues was a while ago; Pickles is up next. (Alphabetical order.)

Oof

Now this is what I love about Pearls Before Swine – when Stephan Pastis plays with the medium of the comic strip itself. This is so much better than when he uses his characters to gripe about smartphones, social media, and the virtue of supporting “journalism”.

It was a panel truck?

So very funny — LOLOL

I just bought a gadget at O’Reilly’s for that exact occasion!

Will do Pig. Hope you get free soon.

Pressed ham.

He’s doing Charades…the answer is: Pearl Jam.

very meta.

This might very well become a classic…well done!