![]() ![]() It first was published in 2000, when United Feature Syndicate ran it on its website. Pearls is distributed by Universal Uclick as of 2011 previously, United Media’s United Feature Syndicate distributed the strip. Pastis has said each character represents an aspect of his own personality and world view. It chronicles the daily lives of five anthropomorphic animals, Pig, Rat, Zebra, Goat, and Guard Duck, as well as a number of supporting characters. Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, who was formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California. Now on Pearls in general, from Wikipedia: Two examples reported on in this blog: in #2 on 6/26/13, Charlie Brown appears as a character, and on 11/19/13, the dinosaur Dino and the caveman Fred Flintstone from the animated tv series The Flintstones. This is not MGG‘s first adventure in cross-comic allusions. What makes this especially entertaining is that Pearls itself is exceptionally rich in cross-comic allusions. ![]() But that’s not just any crocodile it’s one of the crocodiles from Stephan Pastis’s comic strip Pearls Before Swine. ![]() That’s obviously no groundhog, but some kind of crocodile, so the strip works at one level. ![]()
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