Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 25, 2020

Maybe you’ll feel better after your first cup of coffee.

Stay six feet away Pig!

Nothing odd about this; a lot of people are covered with lines when they first wake up.

His cartoon sketching has crossed the line.

Rat, you forgot my coffee in bed, AGAIN!

Now that we are trimming our own hair during the lock down, our hair is looking a bit sketchy.

Locked in Colombia again , Stephan ?

Didn’t he do one like this a bit ago? About how a bar looked “sketchy”

Sting says “Don’t stand so close to me”

i often wake up feeling drawn…

This when you turn around, get back in bed, and try again tomorrow. (-:

It is a Monday after all, give Pig some slack……. Even in this new reality where many work form home or are on furlough Mondays are a hated day by some (and I know the Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Mondays” was written in response to a mass shooting in the ‘70s) so give me Morrissey’s “Everyday is Like Sunday” (or Natalie Merchant’s cover)instead though its meaning is supposed to be negative as he prays for Armageddon but I will take the boring sleepy seaside town, like the ones in FL used to be like before the condos and high rises came (as well as COVID-19 and rising sea levels)…..

Pig looks quite ill, he’s lost all his color.

Pig needs to go to Nate Wright’s “Mastering Cartoon Drawing on Notebook Paper”.com!

Rat are you looking in the mirror at yourself ? … Croc Power !

I don’t even have my art supplies because it’s all in storage.

I don’t feel sketchy but DRAWN out and tired!

I wonder if Pastis really does work out ideas for his strip on yellow legal pads.

Clever when the cartoonist can excuse his laziness as the joke.

This one cuts across all lines!

Most line work on a daily ever – lol

Before the final square, I thought it was a Pastis behind the scenes sketch.

Pigs in a blanket ;)

Ever wake up realizing you’ve missed a deadline?

I sometimes wake up feeling like I haven’t finished beaming in. Very disorienting.

Out of supplies again, Pasty?

Only if I wake up lying on my back with a bar-stool stuck to my ass.

First signs of the Swine Flu.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a morning where I didn’t feel sketchy. If I did, it was a long, long time ago.

Does this mean that Pig has the virus?

guess Pastis is running low on art supplies again.

Dodgy, sketchy and ragged-out.

This one is funny. (I would like to on this day to recall Pastis’s Memorial Day Sunday comic from early in the strip’s run. Pig went to the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. while Rat thought he went to the beach that weekend. Pastis said it was one of his best received strips, and it may just have been his strip of all time. A blessed Memorial Day to all those who have served our nation and their families.)

I don’t know Rat’s problem; all he can catch is a little graphite.

I’ve been mistaken for a Sasquatch recently..

Pig? Sketchy? Sir!

Rat is dodgy, but I would not consider Pig “sketchy”!

He’s just drawn that way….

stephans puns are getting worse by the second.