Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 29, 2008
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Transcript:
"What are you doing, Rat?" "I got a job making posters that promote better treatment of short people... here, have a look at one I just did..." Be nice to us. "That's a garden gnome." "Is there a difference?"
Actually it looks a lot like a “kabouter” (Dutch for gnome) as they were drawn by Dutch artist Rien Poortvliet. Just Google “Rien Poortvliet kabouter” and you’’ll see what I mean. He drew several books full of “kabouter” lore and they even created a cartoon series based on those books which ran for several seasons.