Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 31, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  about 8 years ago

    Take a sabbatical like Garry Trudeau and Bill Watterson did and work on drawing skills.

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    Adiraiju  about 8 years ago

    And now he’s a Clowngressman.

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    legaleagle48  about 8 years ago

    “Clowno the Congressman.” Isn’t that redundant?

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    knight1192a  about 8 years ago

    You sure Clowno isn’t someone else who has been in Congress?

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    YatInExile  about 8 years ago

    Where I live, that’s what our politicians really look like.

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    Thirdbase  about 8 years ago

    This way everyone can imagine Clowno as their own Congressclown.

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    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.”

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    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.

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    nerdhoof  about 8 years ago

    Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair…

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    nerdhoof  about 8 years ago

    Being in Congress, that’s the way you do it. Not many people playing guitar on the MTV anymore.

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    PICTO  about 8 years ago

    More Reuben’s than skills? I don’t think so.

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    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………

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    carlosrivers  about 8 years ago

    nice to know you were at wrigley, stephan…hope you had a good time!

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    ShadowBeast Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Aren’t congressmen usually proud of not getting anything done? Of course they’ll say otherwise.

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    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.

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    mjb515  about 8 years ago

    Congress not getting things done is underappreciated, since there are many they should not have done: see Obamacare.

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    1simplecat  about 8 years ago

    Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain

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    eddie6192  about 8 years ago

    Toon Boy’s the real Clowno.

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    einarbt  about 8 years ago

    Now that was interesting. Stephan took two really scare characters mixed and made something that looked almost harmless.

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    phredturner  about 8 years ago

    Politicians have no shame

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Hilarious!

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    æ²  about 8 years ago

    That’s okay, Stephan. It’s close enough to Henry Waxman to be credible.

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    Radish the wordsmith  about 8 years ago

    Republicans are proud of their not doing nothing for the last 8 years.

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    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.

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    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!

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    kaffekup   about 8 years ago

    I think Stephan intentionally covered his face so Clowno can represent almost every Congresscritter.

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    Sherlock Watson  about 8 years ago

    When was Trump ever a congressman?

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    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.

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    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.

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    Kr38or  about 8 years ago

    THE CLOWN PURGE IS TONIGHT

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    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!!!

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    Dave Ferro  about 8 years ago

    Never got anything done? Sounds like he’s related to Hillary…

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    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.

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    Andrew Capp  about 8 years ago

    …unless they’re after his wallet.

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    Andrew Capp  about 8 years ago

    My bad.

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    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

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    Phatts  about 8 years ago

    Criminy, 52 comments and nothing about Jack in the Box Hamburgers? What’s wrong with you people!?

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    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?

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member about 8 years ago

    You drew Trump perfectly

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