Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 17, 2025

Rat woke up late, but is not woke.

To be more precise, Garfield has a lasagna hole that he can shut up.

Pig got mugged.

Man! GoComics doesn’t update the daily strip for roughly 12 hours and Rat becomes even more violent than usual. Maybe Garfield will swallow Rat whole..

Trust me, you shouldn’t play

And by the way

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya

Top o’ the Morning to Ya – House of Pain (much better known for “Jump Around”)

A comics team-up!

Hi, Garfield! I love ya, buddy!

Shouldn’t Garfield be using a thought bubble?

Everybody always forgets St. Gertrude’s Day. She is the patron saint of cats and people who love cats.

Happy St. Gertrude’s Day!!

St. Patrick’s Day, Rat had a Shillelagh of course!

“Happy Monday” is an oxymoron.

Most cats like rats…for lunch!

Well, it’s about time! How many decades has it been since this has happened?

I’ve never liked Garfield – ugly bloody cat…

So, today is Topless Monday? Where’s the best place to celebrate that?

It’s a long time since Garfield wasn’t copied and pasted!

Can’t argue with the 3rd panel.

That’s one small cat.

Rat has a green mug in honor of St. Patty’s day

Best Garfield strip in over 40 years.

Is Rat unshaven this morning? LOL

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, even if it is a Monday.

Closet Garfield has ever come to being funny……

Is Garfield really that small?!?!

Wait a minute. Garfield has a regular speech balloon instead of a thought bubble. Can he talk in the Pearls world?

Kick his Assterick, Rat.

“Shut your piehole, Garfield.”“Shut up, Wesley.”

I hope Rat smites the orange thing until it’s reduced to a semi-liquid state.

I love how garfield’s just unfazed by rat LITERALLY KNOCKING SOMEBODY OUT WITH CUP OF COFFEE

The last panel did make me chuckle… ;-)

This is really funny and check out Rat’s eyes!

Judging by Rat’s condition, late, unshaven and more hostile than usual, he had a miserable weekend.

I wonder if Stephan knows he did a gay joke in the 3rd panel???

Good one!

I envy Pastis.A few years ago l did a tribute strip for lnfinity Magazine and featured characters from DC Thomson comics meeting up with characters from rival publication IPC comics. I was given the green light to go ahead but both DC Thomson and Rebellion insisted l altered the names of all the characters!

Having said that, in all the time l contributed to Buster comic, l’d never illustrated the Buster strip. I finally achieved that ambition 30 years later but l had to call it ’Bustar’s Diary’!

The perfect day, St. Pat’s day on a Monday! Just keep bringing the Jamisons…

LOL

Tops and bottoms should have woken up the censor guy…

and that depends on defining tops and bottoms, i prefer the latter

Jim Davis should have sued Pastis for the misuse of his character.

See “Garfield”- 5/29/1992

Did Jim Davis actually draw for Pastis here? That’s a GREAT drawing of Garfield.

Garfield doesn’t just think it, he says it!

A fun (and true) gag … an appearance by Garfield … what more could you ask for?

Really good one today.

GARFIELD!

Ummm, top and bottom have completely different meanings in the LGBT world.

Did Jim Davis help out here, or did Pastis draw Garfield’s feet as Davis does, 1.5 times bigger than his head?

Or Steph gets his oats

Who would win in a battle between Garfield and the Rat? I think they would both be beat up pretty badly (sorry for the bad english….)

Not funny, but I love crossover guest appearances.

Jim Davis is not amused… even though he hasn’t drawn Garfield himself in decades.