Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 31, 2016
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Rat, I'd like you to meet my friend, Clowno the Congressman. Rat: That's his real head? Goat: No. It's a mask. He's a real congressman, but he's so ashamed of never getting anything done that he wears the mask to hide his identity. Rat: Convenient way to hide that you can't draw caricatures. Stephen: I have limited skills!
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
Take a sabbatical like Garry Trudeau and Bill Watterson did and work on drawing skills.
Adiraiju about 8 years ago
And now he’s a Clowngressman.
legaleagle48 about 8 years ago
“Clowno the Congressman.” Isn’t that redundant?
knight1192a about 8 years ago
You sure Clowno isn’t someone else who has been in Congress?
YatInExile about 8 years ago
Where I live, that’s what our politicians really look like.
Thirdbase about 8 years ago
This way everyone can imagine Clowno as their own Congressclown.
Oshietekun about 8 years ago
I prefer it when congress doesn’t get anything done. As bounty hunter Dorfman said to Special Agent Mosley in Midnight Run, after Mosely confiscated his cigarettes for about the third time — “Why don’t you quit? It’ll be cheaper for both of us.”
dadoctah about 8 years ago
Ate at Denny’s earlier this evening. There’s a special Halloween notice taped up on the door that says masks must be removed before entering. From this I conclude that Clowno doesn’t eat at Denny’s.
nerdhoof about 8 years ago
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair…
nerdhoof about 8 years ago
Being in Congress, that’s the way you do it. Not many people playing guitar on the MTV anymore.
PICTO about 8 years ago
More Reuben’s than skills? I don’t think so.
juicebruce about 8 years ago
Tis nice when Congress does not get things done………that way they do not cost me more money or what is left of the freedoms we once enjoyed………
carlosrivers about 8 years ago
nice to know you were at wrigley, stephan…hope you had a good time!
ShadowBeast Premium Member about 8 years ago
Aren’t congressmen usually proud of not getting anything done? Of course they’ll say otherwise.
jbmlaw01 about 8 years ago
Gaijinrabbit needs to read the 7th Amendment and contrast that with the number of US agencies and corporations that can levy fines without potential for a trial by jury.
mjb515 about 8 years ago
Congress not getting things done is underappreciated, since there are many they should not have done: see Obamacare.
1simplecat about 8 years ago
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain
eddie6192 about 8 years ago
Toon Boy’s the real Clowno.
einarbt about 8 years ago
Now that was interesting. Stephan took two really scare characters mixed and made something that looked almost harmless.
phredturner about 8 years ago
Politicians have no shame
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 8 years ago
Hilarious!
æ² about 8 years ago
That’s okay, Stephan. It’s close enough to Henry Waxman to be credible.
Radish the wordsmith about 8 years ago
Republicans are proud of their not doing nothing for the last 8 years.
Ermine Notyours about 8 years ago
Stephen has done lots of caricatures: Jeffy from Family Circus, Cathy from her own strip. All the celebrities that matter.
McGehee about 8 years ago
Who in their right mind wants Congress to “get anything done”? They could handle what the Constitution requires of them in a couple of weeks and then go home!
kaffekup about 8 years ago
I think Stephan intentionally covered his face so Clowno can represent almost every Congresscritter.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
When was Trump ever a congressman?
angelfiredragon about 8 years ago
define getting things done? One can submit a bill, get a vote and still not pass things either cause it won’t pass with enough votes or it won’t pass the senate or the president veto’s it.
That is still working in my book, getting things done isn’t about the amount of new laws they pass. It is about doing what your suppose to do, if all of congress was sitting around not submitting bills then I’d say they are not working.
For me it isn’t about what is passed but what is submitted.
zeexenon about 8 years ago
Wait till you retire. Society believes that you are absolutely useless, and worse case, a parasite. It’s kind of funny when old guys, like Einstein, work their asses off in old age to overcome this stigma. Me, I go out early in the morning and wave to my neighbors as they start their commute to the salt mines.
Kr38or about 8 years ago
THE CLOWN PURGE IS TONIGHT
rageiken about 8 years ago
Everytime I read his strip I laugh out loud, so he must be doing something right. It is not the drawing that is funny, it is the comparisons of one thing versus another and he always has rat to do his dirty work!!!
Dave Ferro about 8 years ago
Never got anything done? Sounds like he’s related to Hillary…
Andrew Capp about 8 years ago
…I can never understand why Ringo is also running from the screaming girl fans in the sixties news reels. Surely out of the four, he’s the safest.
Andrew Capp about 8 years ago
…unless they’re after his wallet.
Andrew Capp about 8 years ago
My bad.
Number Three about 8 years ago
Well if you’re so clever, Rat. Why don’t you take over the strip?
Nope. Thought not.
xxx
Phatts about 8 years ago
Criminy, 52 comments and nothing about Jack in the Box Hamburgers? What’s wrong with you people!?
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Cartoon-Boy can’t draw caricatures, Rat? Then, who is that guy in panel 3 who has “limited skills”? Some pettifogging shyster?
Dapperdan61 Premium Member about 8 years ago
You drew Trump perfectly