Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 07, 2021

Best wishes

Is that what you’re going to leave her instead of a tip?

‘Stephan Failure’

Is this strip inspired by actual events?

If a restaurant employee holding a credit card walks up to me and says “Are you Stephan Pastis?”, I would say yes.

All of the other patrons had been adding their drinks on Pastis’s card. They told the bartender that Pastis owed them for all of the bad puns the suffered through.

You’ve got to give Stephan credit; he doesn’t have any cash.

I’m surprised the comic strip censor isn’t all over Rat for his name-calling. :-)

Ah, the fickle finger of fame.

Next, the bank will close it out.

I sign everything “get bent”. I mean, since the incident. I used to sign everything “Ben Dover” but they made me stop.

It would have been even funnier if she had told him his card was declined.

Sure Stephan, she asked you for your autograph didn’t she?

He wrote a kids book called “Timmy Failure”? No wonder he’s a sad, miserable putz.

At least he finished his beer between the second and third panels!

Pastis has written 7 books in the “Timmy Failure” series for middle grade kids.

“Timmy Failure is a detective who can take any mystery and make it more mysterious”

Pastis is also a marketing genius – by cross marketing Timmy Failure with PBS he has all talking about both… for free! “Mo Money!”

I hope Pastis does not take it personally and still leaves the bartender a decent and fair tip and does not use the exchange as an excuse to stiff her! You are better than that Pastis though I bet Rat is probably a very cheap tipper!

Just leave a very generous tip.

Someone got knocked down a few levels of importance!

Obviously a –not even exaggerated– autobiographic experience. Like most of of Stephan’s Timmy Failure books, too, I guess.

Remember, Pastis is the guy who got Bill Watterson to come out of retirement for the first time several years ago to draw 3 PBS strips, so there’s that… PLUS, he used to be a Lawyer, so ANYTHING that leaves us with one less Lawyer in the world can’t be a bad thing!

Even if it means we have to endure some truly awful puns…

Draw a comic strip as payment, Picasso style.

My kid was not a comics kid (alas) but he loved PBS. We went to see Pastis at a book signing (15 years ago?). He did a great presentation and my now-grown-kid has since tossed almost everything he had pre-college. But he still has his signed PBS books with the doodles Pastis did along with his signature.

I didn’t know. Off to Amazon to order a copy. (no kidding)

She’s been keeping tabs on you.

Got in a plug for his book AND paid for it via this strip.Nice multi-tasking, Stephan!

Ha! Steph you know we love ya! (as long as you pay your bar tab, that is)

Stephen could erase you from existence for that, Rat.

Rat has a lot of nerve…he’s the biggest putz of all! LOL

This is an excerpt from Stephan’s Biography:“Sow’s purse from a SIlk Ear”.

Not to be mean, but if I ever saw Pastis in person, I probably wouldn’t recognize him.

Chickweed Lane uses ‘putz’ today too; is there something in the air?

If you can’t be famous, shoot for notorious, Stephan!

Welcome to the club, Stephan.

Did this recently happen to SP in real life?

Hey…this is not a book signing putz…er I mean Stephan! ;o}

If she possess your credit card, than yes……

Life advice: if you’re going to enter a store, please be considerate and don’t enter minutes before closing, or stay until after closing. We customer service workers greatly appreciate it.

Pastis is the Rodney Dangerfield of comic strip creators.

“Thank you for your service.”

Same thing happened to me yesterday afternoon. Good to be back at a bar in a restaurant! Although I had to show prof of vaccination and I.D. to get in. Not sure how I feel about that?!?

oh, he wrote that movie? That was a really cute movie and I enjoyed it.

How many people who write comic strips ARE recognized on the street?

Maybe Garry Trudeau,because he’s got a famous wife.

LOL!

No Stephan…just tip, and tip generously.

Anyone else get the feeling this is based on something that really happened?

How weird is this? Two people being called a “putz” in two separate comic strips on the same day.

https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2021/10/07?ct=v&cti=1428192

Um, I’m assuming he either handed her the card or left it on the bar at his seat for her to take and run through. So my question is why she had to ask if he was Stephan Pastis.

Most goyim don’t understand Yiddish

Double like on this one.

Nice plug. Make sure no mistakes were made.

Take what you can get.

Oh, Cartoon-Boy, don’t let “fame” go to your head.

To put it another way, Rat is accurate in his assessment….

sure, sign it stephan if it makes you feel good

Shamelessly plugging himself….