This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection

Pearls Before Swine #2

by Stephan Pastis

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 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.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Comic Strips, Adult, Graphic Novels, Collections, Graphic Novels Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. In December, 1999, he signed a contract with United.
Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 2004 and 2007 as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) and won the award in 2004 and 2007. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California.

Reviews

[Martha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh Piggie!!!!!

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious!!!!!!! Must find more of these books.

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another wonderful collection of comic strips from Pearls Before Swine. One of my favorite newer (newish?) comic strips. It ranks up there with Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Peanuts, B.C., Wizard of Id, and Foxtrot for me.

I love how Pastis seems to get away with a lot more in his strips than do many others, and is willing to push the envelope as well to see how far they'll let him go.

[Ethan West · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm on a pearls kick if you can't tell.

[Jüülæ · Rating 4 out of 5]

pearls before swine is a very hit or miss comic imho
but i enjoyed this, the puns were very clever

[⋊ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Come for the puns, stay for the punishment of Salmon Spawning School.

[Doelnig · Rating 4 out of 5]

The continued evolution of an incredible sense of humor.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of earlier comics. This book contains one of my now staple jokes: Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? He died. *giggle, giggle*

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

this may have been the funniest cartoon i have ever read!

[Janice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just love Stephan Pastis's sense of humor. This is one of the older ones, but you can see how he is developing his strip.

[Laurla2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

read this one in the treasury -
sgt. piggy's lonely hearts club comic: a pearls before swine treasury