How To Draw Pearls Before Swine Characters

(left to correct) Inferior, Goat, Baby-sit Duck, Sus scrofa, Stephan, Rat, Larry, Snuffles, Zebra, Danny Donkey

Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, who was formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California. Information technology chronicles the daily lives of four anthropomorphic animals, Pig, Rat, Zebra, and Goat, as well as a number of supporting characters. Pastis has said each grapheme represents an attribute of his own personality and world view.^[one] Although created in 1997, it was not published until 2000, when United Feature Syndicate ran information technology on its website. Its popularity rose later on Dilbert creator Scott Adams, a fan of the strip, showed it to his own fans.^[two] United Feature launched the strip in newspapers outset December 31, 2001, in The Washington Post.^[three] On January vii, 2002, it began running in Over nine,000 papers.^[four] As of September 2011, the strip was actualization in 650 newspapers worldwide.^[5] The strip has become somewhat controversial due to its utilise of adult sense of humor, mock profanity, violence, drinking and drug references and a few references to Middle-Eastern terrorism.

Contents

• ane Origins
• 2 Comic strip influences
• three Chief characters
  • 3.1 Rat
  • three.2 Squealer
  • 3.three Goat
  • 3.4 Zebra
  • 3.5 Guard Duck
  • 3.6 Crocodiles
  • three.7 Stephan Pastis
  • 3.8 Snuffles
• 4 Setting
• v Meaning of the title
• six Way
• seven Controversial strips
  • 7.1 Satanic visit
  • seven.two President Bush-league strip
  • 7.3 ADHD strip
  • vii.iv "Desperasexual" strip
  • vii.five Rat the Babysitter
  • 7.6 The Midget strip
  • 7.vii Ataturk the Llama strips
  • 7.viii Lou Gehrig's Disease strips
  • 7.ix Controversial month
    • 7.9.1 Jerusalem Bus strip
    • seven.ix.2 "You damned fairy!"
  • 7.ten Washing automobile strip
  • 7.eleven Family Circus Encounter Osama Bin Laden
• 8 Other media
• 9 Technical aspects
• 10 Books
• 11 Awards
• 12 References
• 13 External links

Origins

Prior to creating Pearls Before Swine, Pastis worked as a lawyer in California.^[6] In law school, he became so bored during classes, he started to doodle a rat, eventually casting information technology in a non-syndicated comic strip he called Rat. The title character of Rat would afterwards become 1 of the main characters in "Pearls Before Swine." The "Pearls" grapheme of Grunter also came from a failed strip called The Infirm, virtually a struggling lawyer.

In 1999, he submitted Pearls Earlier Swine to syndicates. Several expressed interest and about iii accepted it,^[7] only they could non convince their sales staff that it was marketable. However, Amy Lago, an editor at United Media, saw the strip's potential and launched it on the United Media website in November 2000 to run into what kind of response it would generate. When Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and supporter of the strip, told his fans about "Pearls Earlier Swine", interest skyrocketed, and the strip was taken to print. Aiding Pastis in the artistic elements of the strip was Darby Conley, creator of the comic strip Get Fuzzy.^[6]

Comic strip influences

Pearls' way and sense of humour are inspired by several comic strips, master among them existence Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, Blossom Canton and The Far Side. Pastis regularly puts tributes to them in his strip. When asked in an interview near whether his profession equally an chaser inspired the humor in the comic, Stephan said, "I was very unhappy as a lawyer, and sense of humour is a reaction to and defense force against unhappiness. Besides, the law inspired me because if you lot dislike what you lot're doing to the extent that I did, it gives you the impetus to become out."^[8] Pastis besides regularly parodies comics he finds stale or unfunny, including Cathy, The Family unit Circus and Garfield (although in the case of The Family Circus, Pastis actually is a fan). The relentless and merciless riffing on archetype comics (i.e. a series where Osama bin Laden comes to alive with the Family Circus, causing the parents, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and PJ to be sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp) has earned Pastis the disdain of many comic artists, which Pastis referenced in a later storyline where the Pearls cast is non invited to the 75th anniversary crossover party of Blondie.^{[ citation needed ]}

Stephan Pastis has also mentioned that the incongruity between the cute characters and the dark themes surrounding them is a source of humor in the strip.^[9]

Pearls Earlier Swine'south logo

Main characters

Rat

Main article: Rat

at is a narcissistic, misanthropic rat, and is an antihero. He frequently breaks the fourth wall, equally well as being aware of his implementation as a fictional comic strip character. Because of this, Rat is ofttimes critical of the comic strip's manner and artwork as well as the other characters in the strip and many other living things.

Pig

Main article: Pig

Pig is the character that receives the nearly abuse from Rat. He is kind by nature, simply very naïve.^{[5] [8]} Sus scrofa's jokes generally involve his incompetence and not knowing his true surroundings. His on-over again-off-again girlfriend, Pigita, is driven insane by his naïveté, only she can never acquit to dump him. Pastis says that Pig has a habit of talking to inanimate objects such as food, stop lights, bait, and various other things. His dimness is frequently exhibited in the strip.

Caprine animal

Principal article: Caprine animal

An intellectual caprine animal who interacts sparingly with the other characters, Goat usually appears whenever there is a pocket-sized issue dealing with a graphic symbol or a conflict to exist mediated.^[5] Caprine animal has an equally hard time dealing with Pig's incompetence and Rat's cruelty and occasional ignorance. Goat maintains an internet blog that, equally Rat likes to point out, receives no hits. Goat in turn tends to criticize Rat's forays into writing, often telling him not to write them at all. In early strips, Caprine animal had a beard; he first appeared without it in the March 31, 2004 strip.

Zebra

Main article: Zebra

Zebra, as well known every bit "zeeba neighba" (zebra neighbour) by the Fraternity of Crocodiles next-door (Zeeba Zeeba Eata), is a zebra who is oftentimes seen trying to patch up relations betwixt his herd back home and its predators, lions and hyenas. Pastis has likewise stated that the but goal of Zebra is to avert existence killed by his crocodile neighbors.^[5]

Baby-sit Duck

Principal article: Guard Duck

Guard Duck is, as his proper name implies, the "guard duck" for Pig and Rat'due south abode,^[five] and even so lives with them despite often taking on different occupations. Pig has described him equally "very sensitive and having an acrimony management trouble". He's known for a short cousin and a encarmine steak. He has gone to several anger management seminars, simply he leaves with more issues than he had before.

Crocodiles

Main article: Crocodiles

The Fraternity of Crocodiles are the main antagonists of the strip, described past Pastis equally "inept and inarticulate neighbours" of Zebra^[five] and while they are indeed on very poor terms with all five main characters (with the possible occasional exception of Rat), they are normally involved in various attempts to impale and eat Zebra, all of which fail. The fraternity name is "Zeeba Zeeba Eata" (although one of them chosen it "Zeta, Zeta, Epsilon" in their first appearance in a botched attempt to fool Zebra). They have very bad grammar, and also have an expanded and a slightly smaller font size.

Stephan Pastis

Master article: Stephan Pastis (grapheme)

Stephan Pastis appears self-reflexively in the strip. He is oftentimes seen with Rat, who makes him the burden of criticism nearly his artwork and jokes. Pastis too is subjected to Rat's odd whims from time to time, such as when Rat poured beer on one of his drawings and caused information technology to blur (an effect Pastis said he could only achieve on Photoshop) and stole all of his dress. In the strip, Stephan expresses mutual sense, different Rat and some of the other characters. His character has also expressed his hate of being an attorney, which was his quondam career. As the strip went, his personal appearance on the strip changed. (Pastis has even said that he uses himself more then any comic creator in his strip)

Snuffles

Main commodity: Snuffles

Snuffles is Zebra'southward true cat. Originally, he was adopted by the crocodiles on September xxx, 2007 to kill Zebra considering he was the cat at the shelter who scratched and flake the most, but the plan backfired and Snuffles grew to like Zebra.

Setting

The strip is fix in a fictional suburb within or around Albany, California, where Pastis currently lives (at to the lowest degree ii strips take stated that the characters live in "Albany"). Every house appears to take siding on it. There is one brick wall, a beach, and the street which is commonly littered with the same soda/beer tin can. Stephan says in a treasury that the can is the only piece of trash he knows how to draw. He then later exercises trash-cartoon past adding a banana peel and crumpled up paper in another strip. Many episodes involve the characters drinking or otherwise sitting in a tavern, frequently with Rat or Pig responding to others' conversational openings with goofy responses which repel whatsoever women they are trying to pick up.

The continuity of the strip is very loose, and Pastis even says that "sometimes characters get jobs once, and y'all never hear about it once more." Many storylines are left with open endings, and sometimes continuity leaps are made, especially when characters die and subsequently re-appear (he says they "un-die").^{[ citation needed ]} Commonly, relationships between characters are left unaltered. (Farina, who appears infrequently for long periods of time, has a human relationship with Rat that usually picks up where it left off.)

Meaning of the title

The title Pearls Before Swine refers to the admonition "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine" that Jesus gave according to Matthew 7:6 in the Bible. According to Pastis, Rat, who considers himself a genius, casts his "pearls" of wisdom before Pig ("swine"), who is the only one naive enough to seriously heed. Another interpretation is that the title is a joke itself, in that Stephan jokes that his strip is god-like, and the readers are simpletons who cannot understand it.

Fashion

Artistically, Pearls is extremely simple. Virtually of the characters have either mouths represented past lines or no mouths at all, dot eyes, and stick limbs; those shown with lips are generally big and puffy in this area, and the lips are simply a visual cue that they are unintelligent or ignorant. All the same, characters do have mouths when yelling (similar to Dilbert), or in the crocodiles' case, open their mouths when yelling. Pastis stated,

"People say that they similar my strip'southward simplicity, but I'g doing the best I tin can to just to get up to that level. I'thou non dumbing the art downwardly.^[10] " ― Stephan Pastis

Pearls is also a meta-comic in that it often satirizes the comics medium, and allows its characters to break the fourth wall and either communicate directly with the writer or with characters from other strips, which they often do. Pastis will often employ a shaggy dog story, using a bang-up amount of dialogue to spin an elaborate yarn often resolved with a graphic symbol's unforeseen decease or near death. A variation known equally a feghoot builds to an intentionally bad pun in the penultimate console, with the final panel'due south showing the cartoon version of Pastis as the target of criticism, hostility, or fifty-fifty physical violence from the characters, commonly Rat. One time, Rat sensed a bad pun coming, and stopped it with dropping an anvil on Pastis' head. The characters also frequently acknowledge the fact that they are in a comic strip published in newspapers; the strip published on January xiv, 2008 had a "roof fish" sitting on acme of the console fishing for the characters, and other strips have had such events as smeared newsprint or beer affected the appearance of the strip or strips in which information technology seems as if the paginators had laid out the strip wrong. Other comic strips are often the barrel of punchlines, and several cartoon characters from outside Pearls have appeared, most frequently the main bandage of The Family Circus, and even in one circumstance, Stewie from Family Guy appeared in the strip on April 20th of 2008, holding a candy pikestaff, for a reference to the proverb, "It's like taking candy from a babe." During that appearance, Stewie said two of his more than famous phrases ("Touch information technology and you dice, fatty human" and "What the deuce are you staring at?") to Pig. The presence of the characters oftentimes affects the goings-on in the other strips, either straight (through their presence) or indirectly through setting or dialogue, such as when Rat replaced the words of a Family unit Circus comic with a quote from Benito Mussolini.

Pearls is notorious for its large corporeality of dark humor; topics such equally death, low and homo suffering overall are common themes, and Pastis has recalled receiving complaints, including hate mail and occasionally death threats from people who have been offended past his strips; two strips that portrayed a llama United Nations diplomat named "Ataturk" who spits on other diplomats, prompted a letter to then-President George Westward. Bush from the Turkish Ambassador to the United States enervating an apology, seeing information technology as a mockery of old Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Pastis has mentioned in his treasuries that the cartoonists whom he mocks (a trademark characteristic of Pearls) frequently take the insults in good humour, even occasionally asking for an original strip.

Controversial strips

As written higher up, Pearls often contains dark sense of humour. Some of the strips take been seen as controversial or offensive. Such strips include the following:

Satanic visit

From March one–5, 2004, Rat'southward old friend Satan comes to visit him and Pig for the weekend as a houseguest. Rat and Satan go to a seafood restaurant where Satan orders the sole, causing the waiter to run away screaming in terror. The reason for Satan's holiday is that the streets in Hell are being renovated past "Good's Carpentry Service" owned by Mr. Good, and the Chin brothers (of which at that place are ten), causing the pun that the "road to hell is paved with Adept and Ten Chins". The strip caused some outcry amid the religious right.

President Bush strip

On August 17, 2003, the Pearls Before Swine strip featured Rat writing a letter to then-president George Due west. Bush. In this alphabetic character, Rat tells Bush that if he is to bomb every country on world before leaving office, he must flop 3 countries every month and flop France more than once, if there's extra time. Caprine animal warns Rat that if he sends the letter, the government volition see him equally a "whacko" and investigate him. However, in the last console, Bush seems to have Rat's plan to bomb three countries every month, proverb, "Okay... October is Mexico, Canada, and Hawaii," apparently not realizing that Hawaii is office of the Us. Pastis writes in his treasury that many people were offended by the negative depiction of Bush and criticized the strip, while an plainly equal number of people appreciated the mockery and praised the strip.^[11] (Other real-life figures have been portrayed this fashion in Pearls, albeit not as directly.)

ADHD strip

The Pearls Before Swine strip for Nov 9, 2003 featured a "'Pearls' Walk Through Culling History." In this alternative history, the parents of musicians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Miles Davis, and Paul McCartney are shown accepting medication for ADHD to give to their children. In the final console, Rat and Pig are shown at a tape store. They're sighing considering the only records bachelor are those of Pat Boone. The inference to be fatigued is that the medication that the iii musicians took as children prevented them from producing the music that (in true history) they would get on to produce as adults.^[xi] The strip'southward message, that ADHD is a source of creativity and uniqueness, has some supporters. Some people believe that some of the characteristics of ADHD are positive, such as creativity, backbone, a wide worldview, energy, versatility, and an enjoyable disposition.^[12] According to Pastis, many readers sent him e-mail concerning the strip, some of which criticized the strip, and some of which praised the strip.^[11]

"Desperasexual" strip

On July 2, 2004, Pearls Before Swine showed Rat introducing his friend Bennie to Caprine animal. Rat explains that Bennie is physically attracted to both men and women. Caprine animal says that this means that he is a bisexual, but Rat says that Bennie is attracted to both sexes only considering he is lonely. Considering Bennie does not choose to be attracted to be both sexes, Rat does not consider him to be a bisexual and instead calls him a "desperasexual." Many readers were offended by what they perceived every bit the strip's assertion that a bisexual chooses to be attracted to both sexes, taking as a annotate on the political aspects of homosexuality,^[11] though Pastis has denied any political pregnant one manner or the other.

Rat the Babysitter

In a series from March twenty–25, 2006, Rat was hired to babysit Zoe and Hammie from the family-geared, tyke-focusing strip Baby Blues. Instead of responsibly watching the children, Rat began to drink from a beer chapeau and do tequila shots. He so forced Zoe and Hammie to go to the liquor store to become him more alcohol. On the mode to the liquor store, Hammie ran over Jeremy from the comic Zits, instantly killing him then crashing the car into a gas pump causing a massive explosion. Rat and so left baby Wren alone so that he could take hold of a movie, causing the infant to near be attacked by the Crocodiles, who were ultimately killed past Wren, who was portrayed as a "street-smart" and swearing character capable of talking. The serial acquired quite a fervor, and Pastis claims it to be one of his most upsetting comics. Angry messages were besides sent to Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, the creators of Baby Blues, for letting Pastis apply their characters. Co-ordinate to Pastis, "mixing kids and alcohol and having Rat babysit while boozer simply threw some uptight readers over the edge. Many of them responded similar I had really endangered real kids, making no assart for the fact that the Baby Blues kids are pen and ink. In the next Monday's Baby Blues strip, Rick drew a beat-up crocodile on the floor of the kids' living room, proving to everyone that Rick and Jerry knew about this in advance. I call up that quieted down some of the outrage toward me."^[13]

The Midget strip

On November 15, 2005, a farcical strip in which Pastis pretended to be on hiatus ran.^[14] In his stead, Rat "wrote the comic" that day. In the strip Rat decides to throw a midget off a pier to run across how much altitude he could get. Despite the general idea of Pastis attempting to parody his history of offensive comic strips, an angry letter ran in an Oklahoma paper (The Stillwater Newspress), outraged that it was supposed to be considered humorous that someone would propose throwing a midget off a pier. Pearls Before Swine was canceled from the paper a few weeks later.

Ataturk the Llama strips

Every bit is written in a higher place, 2 Pearls Before Swine strips (January ix and ten, 2007), which showed a llama named Atatürk, acquired the Turkish administrator to the Us to send a letter to George W. Bush, demanding an apology. In these strips, Atatürk is a United nations diplomat, whose form of diplomacy is to spit on other diplomats. Many readers of Turkish descent were offended, seeing it as a mockery of former Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Their estimation of the strip was supported by the fact that Pastis is of Greek descent, and Greece and Turkey take historically been enemies. Pastis denied that the strip was mocking Mustafa Atatürk, saying that he knew nearly nada most Atatürk and used the proper name simply because he liked the audio of it.^[15] He received angry, hate-filled emails (some of which contained expiry threats). Pastis calls it the single biggest controversy he has e'er experienced in the history of Pearls.^[15]

Lou Gehrig's Illness strips

In an introduction on one of his books, Stephan Pastis wrote that one "Pearls" strip was hated by Lou Gehrig fans because in 1 strip (March iii, 2003), Pig thought it was a coincidence that Lou Gehrig would die of a disease that had the aforementioned proper name every bit himself, not knowing that the affliction was named after Gehrig.

Controversial calendar month

Most the entire month of December 2003 caused controversy to Pearls. Hither are some of the controversial strips on that month.

Jerusalem Bus strip

On Dec 28, 2003, the Pearls Before Swine strip shows a boob tube on which a news program is being aired. The news program describes a motorcoach that exploded that day in Jerusalem. The announcer talks about the humanity of the children who died in the explosion, emphasizing small characteristics of their lives that prove them equally normal children. The announcer strays off topic while attempting to convey that the children have similarities to the people watching the news program. In the final console, yet, the announcer reminds those watching the program that the children are now expressionless. The strip is sad and sympathetic, in that information technology laments the loss of the children, and unusual in that it does not endeavor to exist funny and shows none of the strip's regular characters. Pastis says that some readers were angry because information technology (obviously) showed just Israel'due south side of the conflict betwixt Israel and Palestine. However, he also says that many more readers loved the strip. In all, the strip prompted effectually 2,500 emails to Pastis.^[11] Pastis said that while readers who wrote to him were almost unanimously supportive, letters written to editors were more than "50/50", with the other half expressing concern over the topic existence addressed in a humorous part of the paper. The same strip is unique in that not but practice none of the strip's characters (Rat, Hog, etc..) announced, but also in that no characters of any sort (including the TV anchorperson) can exist seen.

"You lot damned fairy!"

On December thirty, 2003, Rat called Grunter a "stupid fairy" in a strip, but "fairy" is often a slang term for a gay person (Pastis thought it meant "sissy", itself a debasing term for gender non-conforming boys). His syndicate thought "fairy" would cause controversy and requested an culling with "sissy". One newspaper couldn't get the alternate strip on time and instead ran a blank infinite in the comics where Pearls was supposed to be.

Washing auto strip

On September 26, 2006, alternate strips were provided to newspapers due to that twenty-four hours's strip involving Grunter playing in a washing motorcar. Concurrent news involved the Jimella Tunstall case, in which her children were allegedly murdered by a friend and hidden from the authorities in a washing automobile. Many papers and websites that syndicated the strip ran the alternate strips instead.

Family Circus See Osama Bin Laden

In the week of June 27, 2005 Pastis ran a series of comics involving the whereabouts of infamous terrorist Osama Bin Laden. The strips portrayed Bin Laden living as an commutation educatee with the family unit from comic The Family Circus. Osama is seen at the dinner table catastrophe grace with "Death to America" instead of "Amen", and instruction Billy, Jeffy and Dolly to phone call their father "The Bully Satan." Somewhen Osama is defenseless when regime agents follow Jeffy'south dotted lines back to the house. Despite their naivete about Bin Laden's activities (Daddy is confused when Osama burns a presidential effigy, remarking that "it looks nothing like Eisenhower"), the family is taken to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. Pastis remarked that despite the many complaints received, the series is one of his most popular and and 1 of his own favorites of all of Pearls.

Other media

In an interview on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that aired February 7, 2008, Pastis mentioned that he had been approached past producers about an animated TV series based on Pearls.

In 2009, a line of Pearls costly dolls was released by Aurora Globe, Inc.,^[xvi] featuring four characters (Rat, Grunter, Zebra and Croc) from the comic, to which Pastis jokingly said he would use for reference when unsure how to draw the characters.^[17]

On October 20, 2010, RingTales launched their serial of blithe "Pearls" strips on Babelgum. Pastis has since begun to release these cartoons on YouTube.

Technical aspects

Cartoonist Darby Conley, creator of Get Fuzzy, helped teach Pastis the technical aspects of cartooning.^[18] The two remain friends, sometimes poking fun at each other in their strips. In Pearls Blows Upwards, Stephan says that he replaces some of the usual squiggle-marks indicating swear words with a poorly drawn picture of Darby Conley's head. In a Get Fuzzy strip, Rob asks Satchel if an annoying lawyer named Stephan called. Satchel has a Pearls book next to him. Conley also drew Pastis in his strip twice during a week where the two cartoonists decided to play a prank on their syndicate by having Conley copy and paste Go Fuzzy characters over Pearls strips.

Books

Primary article: Listing of Pearls Before Swine books

In that location are more than a dozen Pearls Before Swine books, mostly collections of cartoons published during a specific nine to ten-month menstruum.

Awards

Pearls Before Swine won the National Cartoonists Lodge Award for All-time Paper Comic Strip in 2003 and 2006,^[19] with nominations in 2002 and 2008 likewise.^[20] Pastis was one of the social club'southward nominees for "Cartoonist of the Year" for 2008, ^[21] 2009, ^[22] 2010, ^[23] 2011,^[24] and 2012.^[25]

References

1. ↑ "Swine Connoisseur: The Stephan Pastis Interview," Hogan's Alley #sixteen, 2009
2. ↑ The News & Observer (November 24, 2006): "Stephan Pastis: Pearls Earlier Swine", by Matt Ehlers^{[dead link]}
3. ↑ Pastis, Stephan, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Gild Comic (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004; ISBN 0-7407-4807-vi), p.v: "Pearls was supposed to launch in newspapers on January vii, 2002. But but prior to the launch, the Washington Post bought the strip and wanted to outset running information technology a week early. Thus, this week of strips [dated beginning 12/31] was speedily put together just for the Post, and this [12/31] strip became the first Pearls strip, published in exactly one paper".
4. ↑ "''This Little Piggy Stayed Dwelling house'' (March 2004): "Product Detail"". Andrewsmcmeel.com. http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/products/?isbn=0740738135 . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
5. ↑ ^{five.0 five.ane 5.two five.three 5.4 5.5} "About « Pearls Before Swine". Stephanpastis.wordpress.com. http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/nigh/ . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Pastis, Steven (2003). Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Sense of taste Then Darn Good. Andrews McMeel Publishing. pp. seven–eight. http://books.google.com/books?id=QlmCVygKub8C&dq=pearls+before+swine&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 . Retrieved 2008-09-27.
7. ↑ "Forum Interview with Stephan Pastis, Creator of Pearls Before Swine". Phi Kappa Phi Forum. 2004. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4026/is_200407/ai_n9458004/.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 eight.1} November 6, 2006 in Attorney Career Success Stories (November half-dozen, 2006). "Interview: Stephan Pastis: Attorney Turned Cartoonist". Jdblissblog.com. http://www.jdblissblog.com/2006/eleven/stephan_pastis_.html . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
9. ↑ "Artist Interview: "Stephan Pastis: Animal Attitude"". Crescent Blues. http://world wide web.crescentblues.com/8_9issue/int_pastis.shtml . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
10. ↑ ""Forum Interview with Stephan Pastis, Creator of Pearls Before Swine" (Summer 2004)". Findarticles.com. http://www.findarticles.com/p/manufactures/mi_qa4026/is_200407/ai_n9458004/pg_2 . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.i xi.2 11.iii 11.four} Pastis, Stephan. Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2006.
12. ↑ "The Expert Side of ADHD." Vaxa. Web. Mar 7, 2010.<http://www.vaxa.com/skilful-side-adhd.cfm>.
13. ↑ The Crass Menagerie ISBN 0-7407-7100-0
14. ↑ "Pearls Before Swine Comic". United Media. November fifteen, 2009. http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2005/11/15 . Retrieved 2013-04-20.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1} Pastis, Stephan (2009). Pearls Sells Out. Kansas Metropolis: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 77.
16. ↑ info@auroragift.com. "Pearls Before Swine at Aurora". Auroragift.com. http://www.auroragift.com/new_web/product/product_010.php . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
17. ↑ Cavna, Michael (March 25, 2009). "Plush 'Pearls' Toys? Indeed-What a Croc!". Voices.washingtonpost.com. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2009/03/plush_pearls_toys_yes--what_a.html . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
18. ↑ Leopold, Todd (May 4, 2006). "A Rat, a Pig and Some Really Dumb Crocodiles: Stephan Pastis dives deep for his 'Pearls Before Swine' strip". CNN . http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/05/03/pastis.pearls/index.html.
19. ↑ "Division awards". National Cartoonists Order. http://www.reuben.org/?page_id=611#strip . Retrieved 2010-xi-22.
20. ↑ Caitlin Johnson (April 4, 2011). "'Pearls Before Swine' creator Stephan Pastis to visit Dallas area". Dallas Morning News . http://world wide web.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20110404-pearls-before-swine-creator-stephan-pastis-to-visit-dallas-area.ece.
21. ↑ "This Year'south Nominees". National Cartoonists Society. March 15, 2009. http://world wide web.reuben.org/?p=79 . Retrieved 2012-x-05.
22. ↑ "2009 NCS Cartoonist of the Year Nominees Announced". National Cartoonists Lodge. February 23, 2010. http://www.reuben.org/?p=157 . Retrieved 2012-10-05.
23. ↑ "2010 NCS Cartoonist of the Twelvemonth Nominees Announced". National Cartoonists Society. February 22, 2011. http://www.reuben.org/?p=366 . Retrieved 2012-10-05.
24. ↑ "2011 NCS Cartoonist of the Year Nominees Announced". National Cartoonists Club. February 17, 2012. http://www.reuben.org/?p=932 . Retrieved 2012-ten-05.
25. ↑ "2012 NCS Cartoonist of the Twelvemonth Nominees Announced". National Cartoonists Society. February 21, 2013. http://www.reuben.org/2013/02/2012-reuben-honor-nominees-announced/ . Retrieved 2013-04-xx.

External links

• Leningrad [Florida] Times (December 13, 2005): "Exactly What Ees That Zeeba-Eating Accent?", by Hunt Squires
• "Forum Interview with Stephan Pastis, Creator of Pearls Before Swine" (Summer 2004)
• Pearls Earlier Swine site

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