Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 13, 2023

Detroit has bigger problems than people drawing on bathroom walls.

Maybe if he told the cop that he’s on a mission from God . . .

maybe you should have drawn Guard Duck Steph

For a good time call RAT-5309…

“You can’t have [nice things] in Detroit.”

If he decides to become a rapper, he just increased his street cred.

This must mean that they caught all of the real criminals,

and now have time to police graffiti..   right?

If you walks into a toilet and smells a Rat then you is knows Pastis was here eh.

I guess Detroit is not fond of Rat graffiti.

So, who posts his bail?

His mother must be so proud. ******

I guess this is one time that the pen isn’t mightier than the sword.

Detroit cops are tough!

“They wash these walls to still my pen, but the bathroom poet strikes again”!

Way back in the day, you could only legally write on a public bathroom wall if you had a “License to Quill”

Imprison the sinistral! ;-)

He’s going to get a lot of cleaning bills from around the country now.

Rat on a bathroom stall in Detroit just made the city 1000 times better. Should give Pastis a medal.

If Stephan is lucky, his cellmate will be a gentleman named Ben Dover,

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Is this how Picasso got started?

Wouldn’t surprise me to learn this really happened. :-)

Stephen King, when he was waiting for a flight would go to a bookstore and sign his books.

The bathroom stall is up for sale now, Stephan „Banksy“ Pastis.

I’m jail-us!

I’ve heard about Gary Larson’s dorm closet with his sketches at Washington State University, but I’ve never seen it myself.

Tough town – the cops hide in bathroom stalls.

The crocs are dead………..

Remember kids, don’t vandalize anything.

OH! Detroit?! Hang in there, Steph, I’ll come visit you! I might even let you autograph something for me and contribute something to the “Bail out Mr. Pastis” fund.

Hope it’s not in the same jail as Mr. Lemons characters are. LOL☺️❤️

No advertisements in the comics! And pimping a book of recycled comics is the lowest form of advertising.

Banksy!

Must not take too kindly to vandalism in Detroit.

Banksy draws rats too.

Does the guard in panel 4 remind anyone else of Officer Barbrady from South Park? Or is it just me?

But only in the men’s room? Unfair!

Commie Left

What are the options he has? -—-a) Keep him in jail where he might be safe or the world might be safe from him? -—-b) Keep him in jail because his next stop is in Ohio (and Washington D.C.). I noticed he skipped Cleveland like most good rock stars seem to do. If he went to Washington D.C., would he be a hero among fans or do politicians put him in jail for poking fun at them? -—-c) Start a “GoFundMe” account so we, the readers and fans, can rescue him. The Detroit police could be big fans of his and might get some free autographs from him!! (Besides signing official paperwork…) -—-d) Thank the Detroit police for doing such a great job!!!!

like Trump, Pastis is not above the law

Maybe offer him a signed copy of your book as a bribe.

Are they gonna give you a chair? With wires? :D Will our dreams come true? :P Will the pain finally end? Will Rat and Goat finally be free? Will Pig turn into Ham and Bacon?We will see in the next episode of “Pearls for Swines”… :D

At least there’s no criminals in there with you,they get a free pass…

He’d have been fine if he hadn’t written, “For a good time, call Mouse at….”

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There’s a famous theatre in Joliet,Illinois where all the famous entertainers are required to go down into a sub-basement room and write their names on the wall.

One day a painting crew who hadn’t been briefed painted over every autograph before 1950.And those were some pretty famous names.

Beethoven, a notoriously difficult tenant, once rented a summerhouse, with the landlord making a specific demand: that Beethoven allow slatted shutters installed on the front windows. Why? Ostensibly, to protect the composer’s eyes from the harsh sunlight, but the real reason was that the landlord knew that Beethoven had a habit of writing musical notes, calculations, etc., on them. The landlord then sold the shutters for a handsome price after the famous composer left.

I could imagine someone cutting out a piece of the bathroom wall that Pastis drew on.

too bad he wasn’t in a coffee shop…maybe coulda bribed him with some donuts…

It’s not a prison sentence, probably more like a small fine and a night in jail

You’d always sign the toilet paper.

Just give me an indelible marker, and I’ll write, “I will not deface crapper stalls” on this wall here.

Somebody ratted on Stephan ratting.

Steph drops the pen to sit in the pen.

Stephan, the saying is “The world is my OYSTER,” not “The world is my EASEL.”

Those who write on bathroom walls,

Roll their s#!+ in little balls.

Those who read these words of wit,

Eat these little balls of s#!+!

When I was a CSULB, they had chalkboards and chalk in the stalls and by the urinals.I’m not sure if it was the same in the women’s rooms.

Yeah, that’s Detroit for ya.

there is whiteboard paint

I guess the Detroit police don’t have any real criminals to go after, like those “peaceful protestors” from 2020…

Detroit is rough on graffiti artists. They need to arrest somebody.

Better than Bansky!

and it’s not the punitentiary!

Busted! Those graffiti vandals deserve Detroit’s Robocop solution….

You are not Banksy, Steph.