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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 it debut year - an unprecendented achievement - and its first book collection, Pearls Before Swine, 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 Everrodent: 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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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.

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0740738135
  • ISBN-13: 978-0740738135
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.5 x 0.6 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)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as a gift, November 22, 2007
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny stuff from a weird (in a good way) mind, July 7, 2004
By John A. Dodds (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book - great follow-up to his first book!, May 18, 2004
By Dean S. Tripodes (Sierra Madre, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great gift
My favorite comic. The best part is the author side comment helps understand what goes into writing a comic. Well written. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Michael J. Hudson

5.0 out of 5 stars Pearls Indeed
I love Stephen Pastis. He never fails. Thank you, Stephen, for the laughing out loud and the horrendous but amazingly smart puns. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Joan A. Tinnin

5.0 out of 5 stars Rat & Pig
Kudos to Stephan Pastis on his humorous comic strips. We love the stupid pig and angry rat.
Published 14 months ago by Carla M. Holladay

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but the same comics
This book was very good, but it had the same comics as another of Stephan Pastis' books, "Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic". So if you already have that, don't get this.
Published on September 9, 2007 by K. Porter

5.0 out of 5 stars Little Piggy
As always the Pearls cast is entertaining. Pearls is only for those who appreciate Pastis' humor.
Published on January 9, 2007 by Brice Hammerstein

5.0 out of 5 stars WORST COLLECTION EVER...
This is the greatest collection ever!Everything is so funny,and they have a rat.True,pure classics.They are unlike the junk in other strips like 'Family Circus','Rose is... Read more
Published on April 23, 2005

4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff.
This is an enjoyable read. PBS is quickly becoming the second-best new strip in the newspaper -- behind the sublime "Pooch Cafe."
Published on June 24, 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Even Better Than His First!
It's hard to improve on excellent work, but Stephan Pastis did exactly that. His writing and drawing improved noticeably in "This Little Piggy. Read more
Published on May 29, 2004 by MJN76

5.0 out of 5 stars I told Stephan he was headed for success
Back before even the first Pearls Before Swine book came out, when I only saw the strip on the internet, I told Stephan Pastis by email that his strip was headed for success. Read more
Published on May 10, 2004 by J. Price

5.0 out of 5 stars SMART and SIMPLE
This is the smartest, funnniest new comic strip in years. Pearls Before Swine is a fresh change from the usual world of fifth grade humor that you see in most strips these days... Read more
Published on March 17, 2004 by paul

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