Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 24, 2004

Transcript:

"The 'Pearls' Mailbag" "Vincent L., of San Marino, CA, writes, 'You guys are always gloomy, while the characters in "Family Circus" are always happy. You are in 150 papers. "Family Circus" is in 1,500.'" "Well, Vincent...we here at 'Pearls' don't measure ourselves by number of papers. We pride ourselves on being edgy and daring, because we...we...Exactly how much income is 1,500 papers?" "This says $750,000 per year." "I said, 'SMILE', Dolly Piggy."