This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection [Paperback]

Stephan Pastis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Pearls Before Swine is an impressive comic strip success story. In syndication for less than two years, it currently appears in more than 150 newspapers worldwide, was nominated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society in its debut year-an unprecedented achievement-and its first book collection, BLTs Taste So Darn Good, has sold through four printings. This Little Piggy Stayed Home continues the adventures of Rat and Pig, who couldn't be more different-or more surprising. Rat is your typical Everyrodent: scheming, self-centered, and more than occasionally manipulative. By contrast, Pig is sensitive, kindly, and-even on his best days-just plain stupid. Together with Zebra and Goat, they confront the strange and wonderful world around them, a place that looks suspiciously like our own. By turns thoughtful and subversive, silly and sophisticated, This Little Piggy Stayed Home is one of the funniest comic collections of the year

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About the Author

Stephan Pastis is an attorney by training and an anarchist by temperament. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the UCLA Law School, he worked as a lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area before deciding to try his hand at cartooning. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740738135
• ISBN-13: 978-0740738135
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephan Pastis was once a "love me tender" lawyer who created Pearls Before Swine to relieve boredom. He lives in his own Graceland in northern California with his wife, two children, and his blue suede shoes.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as a gift, November 22, 2007

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Christopher Eby (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection (Paperback)

This is the second Pearls Before Swine collection, comprised of all the 2003 comic strips. If you are thinking about buying this book for your personal collection, I would recommend "Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic" instead. It is a treasury that combines the first 2 books, with the added bonus of having the Sunday strips in color and includes comments from Stephen Pastis. But this book is still full of great, hilarious strips and would make a great gift.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny stuff from a weird (in a good way) mind, July 7, 2004

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John A. Dodds (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection (Paperback)

Pastis will go to ANY length to set up what would normally be a semi-lame word play; it ends up being great. He also is the master of writing conversations where each participant consistently misunderstands the other to humorous effect.

Rat is funniest at his most threatening. He tells the neighbor to get rid of the kumquats on his lawn--or face Rat's secondhand Soviet missile. Pig is funny just being Pig--only dimly aware of the reality around him. And Zebra's interactions with various potential predators is hilarious. Great book; buy it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book - great follow-up to his first book!, May 18, 2004

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Dean S. Tripodes (Sierra Madre, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection (Paperback)

Pastis is witty as ever, and his dry humor really hits home on many fronts. His jokes on married life and silly people really made me laugh. He has a great section where Rat tries to leave the strip, and joins other comic strips. His humor and tie-ins to other strips are really creative and funny. This is a must buy for Pearls fans.