Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 06, 2024

Is he also preparing speeches about baseball, fast cars, and beer?

Word to the wise, Rat: do not offend the man with the eraser too many times.

On the bright side, you won’t have to worry about shoplifters.

RAT is JUST trying to save you the gas money, cartoon boy!!!! Dan aka….

I’m intrigued by the need for an easel with the city names on it instead of a scrap of paper. Oh, yeah, right—he wants the reader to see it and check online for the venues.

Make sure to have some Skyline when you are in Cincy. Man I am making myself hungry.

Yes, lock the doors. We don´t want the potential customers to escape.

Isn’t it Rat who always complains about the uncountable mass of stupid people? He should be proud of Pastis using that to his advantage.

Your agent scheduled your appearance at B. Dalton, Borders, Brentano’s, Cody’s Books, Crown Books, Encore Books, Kidd’s Booksellers, Marboro Books, Stacy’s, The Booksellers on Fountain Square, The Mercantile Library, The Mystery Company, and Waldenbooks.

Listen to Rat. After you’ve been a lawer then cartoonist what could possible be next?

Should have something about the book itself in the cartoon? There are some ads on the webpage, but no idea which might be related to this book tour. Even worse if the comic is appearing in some other context.

(For whatever it’s worth, I did look at an old children’s story he did (as part of a series) and didn’t find it interesting. Maybe it would have become funny if I’d persisted?)

Don’t dis your Creator!

It is impossible to achieve a temperature of absolute zero. VERY hard to calculate.

I doubt in this era of eBooks many people are reading real paperback books.

Why is it good to have things on hand but never have things on foot?

What is this “book” thing you’re signing?

I remember going to Stephan Pastis book signing. Ah, good times.

Bookstores are where you get Lego sets.

Don’t be cruel. I always go to book signing. The bookstore put the author’s books on sale for the event. You buy cheap and, once he dies, you can sell the signed copy and make a nice profit. It doesn’t have to be his book. They’re worth a lot more if you make them sign the wrong book :D

The backwards hat is kind of passe.

Shaddup, Rat, lest you feel the wrath of your Creator.

Nothing like using your strip to promote your Midwestern tour.

I was waiting for the 3 city pun.

Pastis is a mental health pill for the day. The need to laugh is increasing daily.

Went to a Pastis book signing in Denver years ago. He was great. He even signed my XSHYSTR license plate, and drew Rat on it.

Why lock the doors? Its not like anyone is going to steal his books either. Oh, maybe to keep the pens from getting stolen. That’s it!

Need to come back to Wichita as it was one fun book signing.

There’s a new trend here…..locked out of the political cartoons, the trollers have adapted to random implants in innocuous comics.

Slimy use of strip as a book advertisement.

The Count will see you Friday, Stephan!

If Pastis goes into a resturant, don’t have him take Rat with him. The Health Dept will shut down the place.

I’d say Rat is being mean, but as I remember the last book took, he may be optimistic in not using chloroform on Pastis and tying him up so he can’t go.

Come on, Rat, stop taking these potshots at Stephan! He’s a great cartoonist.

This Friday join Stephan, Rat and Yrs Trly Count❤️Olaf….. Friday, Aug. 9

BOOKS: Stephan Patis: “Pearls Seek Enlightenment,” 6 p.m., Joy & Matt’s Books, 915 Vine St., Downtown. Meet “Pearls Before Swine” author.

Are Count Olaf and Croc Holliday two sides of the same somewhat schizophrenic person ???

Goodness, my old Ameritech RBOC meeting centers, except one is missing … oh yes, the corporate center Chicago. Those were not the days, my Friend.

So, Rat, you’re saying no one should be interested in reading about you? How uncharacteristic.

Is todays strip an actual submission, or just an advertisement for the book signing

zombie eyes

pbs is the deffinition of a perfect comic X)

Best just to take a few. One never knows when the left wingers will riot and burn down stores again like they did in the 2020 ‘summer of love’

Hit him with a baseball bat, Steph! It’d be poetic justice!

Yay! Milwaukee!

Rat, why do you say that if you think no one is going to come?

Too many bookstores have locked their doors. :-(

Stephan is coming to Milwaukee!

Hope to attend in Milwaukee

Europeans couldn’t calculate zero till the Renaissance. In Asia and the Middle East people figured it out earlier.

When are you coming to Denver?

LOLOL

How about one for each store? Though you might have to carry the extras with you.

I hope to attend at Milwaukee

I wish I still lived in Milwaukee, so I could attend Stephan’s visit to my former home.

Rat you would cease to exist if it wasn’t for Steph

Zip it, Rat.

Mouse is a little meany huh? Or is that a shrew? A rat?

After Trump, our cartoonist will be a breath of fresh air