Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 24, 2011

Google “Dysfunctional Family Circus,” Pig — it’s EXACTLY what the Jeffy would want!

i CAN’T READ HIS BELLY….WILL JUST STOP WATCHING IF I MAGNIFY.

Yeah, not having the magnifier is kind of problematic, since often it takes a scanning electron microscope to read the flipping captions in the local paper. Why don’t they just put the comics on a microfiche film and be done with it?

It says: I “heart” the Jeffy.

Cartoon-Steph’s prison ink says “I ♥ the Jeffy” under a portrait thereof. Cartoon-Stephan will never be the man he once was after this bitter stretch in the federal pen. I wonder what the recidivism rates are for hardened, repeat-cartoonists? What will Greek-Moma with ciggy say when she sees her boy?! So many questions!

Is that a red tear under Jeffy’s right eye…

Can we go back to the way comics.com was set up? It had better features, and we could rate the strips.

it is a little hard to read but considering it’s free, who am I to complain?

Steph is not please

A dream to some….to others a nightmare.

Just use the magnification feature in your browser

Not the Jeffy!

Nice dreadlocks, mon!

@twonkyYeah, I’m wondering what all these people are whining about . . . just ZOOM YOUR BROWSER! On a PC, press the “Ctrl” & “+” keys . . . then, amazingly, to return, press the “Ctrl” & “-” .

BRING BACK THE MAGNIFIER, PLEASE!!! I can not understand why Gocomics can’t get their s—- together on this important feature, and why it works fine every day except Sundays. Lame. Very lame.

Stephan should have been working out, instead of being worked on!

I read this comic in the newspaper first, and thought Steph’s hair was in dreadlocks or something. Like Andy Davidson said, there are colored beads in his hair! heheAs to this site, I really did like comics.com better. I didn’t use the magnifier myself, but I liked how you could have 10 comics on one page. Now I started a new comic (barney and clyde) and have to click “next” after every day’s strip. My computer lags like crazy! :(

Cul de Sac and Lio have the Sunday zoom problem fixed. So what’s wrong with this strip that they can’t do the same?

Looks like Steph has a true ‘pen pal’ for life.

Are You Listening GoComics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This was so much better before the merge. Change isn’t always good.

I would run while you still can Rat and Pig!

LOL xxxx

i would’ve thought rat did that

The magnification in the browser blows it up blurry. Stop suggesting it. We’re not so stupid we hadn’t thought of trying that before.

I agree I miss the magnification. But do what I do, have a magnifying glass near the computer, not fun but sometimes things are so small you cannot read.Stephan are you getting dreadlocks? Or tatoo’s? Please say NO!

Stephan, I recommend cutting off your hair and super-gluing it over the tattoo.

Adding my voice to the chorus:

MAG-NI-FY! MAG-NI-FY!

Ohh yeah. Karma’s catching up with ’ole Stevey.

I love it when he makes fun of Family Circus.

Does Stephan realize that the only weapon he needs to kill Rat is an eraser?

actually, in rat’s case it steph would need “goof off”.

Somewhere along the line, the magnify got fixed. It works great now. Maybe being five days behind pays off.

haha!!!!! nice tat!

So Steph was cellmates with Jeffy, weird

I think Jeffy would do that