Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 09, 2020

Puns and alcohol are essential at this time.

i love pearls before swine its like crack for me

Patsis loose on the world will encourage people to Stay behind locked doors.

Pearls is an essential service! You made the funniest joke in panel three.

Did you notice how Stephan’s fist goes outside the border in the last panel?

Next step is to fill in the background with whatever is behind them.

Oh, thank God!

You’ll save me one pun? Oh good. Save it for a long time, okay?

You need “art supplies” for this?

We need the essential service of PBS to drive us to another essential service, alcohol.

So, Stephan, just how big a campaign contribution did you make…?

So its once upun a time again!

They let you back in the country? Huh, go figure.

This, of course, is because the pun is mightier than the sword.

Oh great, more pun-ishment

I consider most cartoonists to be essential.

Not all Onlines are created equal ;-) …. Croc Power

Media is considered an essential service, and a cartoon is a form of media. But so is junk mail, wonder if he will apply for a small business loan?

So many pun-dits making so many comments…..

Prepare for tons of puns.

Strip needs a new bird character. A Corvid.

O Pun Sesame! And voila, color!

The truth is, Pastis was in an ICE detention facility in El Paso, a suspected illegal alien from another planet.

BLESS YOU, PASTIS!!

This reminds me, I need some yellow legal pads.

Puntastic.

We’re counting on you, Pastis.

Be punny, please! I need you.

One and dun.

Hey don’t forget about chocolate !

Stephan – another hero among the pandemic!

The Pun-demic

Can’t wait to start my own strip.

With the toilet paper shortage I went to buy a bidet, but they sold their last one yesterday. Plus, I couldn’t afford it.

I was a bidet late and a dollar short.

Nobody said the lockdown would be pun!

Who knew Pig was proactive?

If puns are the cure, what does that say about the disease?

Steve will wish a pun a star.

Marvel Comic’s “The Pun-isher”

As an unemployed software engineer, I am proudly the least essential person in the state.

Thank god! Heeeeeees baaaaaack!

talk about pun-ishment for our sins

The Feds aka Trump ain’t gonna send you diddly. He is incapable of giving to another person. As he said the supplies be his.

Go ahead Pastis. Pun-tificate all you can.

You, Pastis, are definitely not essential!

PASTIS IS ESSENTIAL!!!!!!!

Thank got this strip is no longer off color. Or is it?

I’ll kind of miss the Pencil drawn on paper!

Where the heck did I put my TOP SECRET rubber stamp?

Puns are essential. Without them there would be no punting, no punishment, no punk, no punch, no punctuation, no punctuality and about 160 other words starting with pun.

HIP-HIP-HOORAY!

YAY!

They should have strip searched him in Customs!

So just what was Pasties doing in Columbia? Buying “coffee”?

GO BACK TO COLUMBIA, THEY’LL SAVE US FROM ROTTEN PUNS!!!!!!!

Just beautiful.

Essentially, I need to get serviced.

All of this crap are puns??

And I was about to look for some colored pencils to mail to you :)

Welcome home, Stephan! Your puns are an essential service.

Stores were all closed? Maybe he should have shopped with that lady who bought the stairway to heaven…

Two old vulture buddies have been flying from New York to Florida every winter together for years. But one year they mutually decide that they’re too old to be flapping their wings for those many hundreds of miles, and they’re going to take a commercial airplane. So they make their reservations.

They arrive at the airport and walk up to the counter to check in. The agent, seeing that one of them has a suitcase, says ‘May I check that for you, sir?’

The vulture replies, ‘No thank you. It’s carrion.’

♪ ♫ Send Lawyers, Puns, and Money… ♫ ♪ (thanks Warren Z!)

Rat says ‘Pun schmun, give me lots of alcohol’.

Listen here, Cartoon-Boy Preacher Man: we don’t need or want that kind of saving! Maybe we’ll tar and feather you (one feather at a time) and ride you out of town on a rail, as they did to flim-flam “artists” back in the Way Back Times!

No pun! No mas!

Drat. I was hoping Bill Watterson would return to the rescue.

Announcment: I will take a break from saying croc-ese, since I am bad. However I will continue when I am better