Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 26, 2012

For a minute there, I thought we were going to be treated to a Pastis pun (you know, something about a Reuben sandwich.)

How about some fava beans and a nice chianti?

I thought Stephan Pastis did win the Reuben award the year before Richard Thompson.

He’s drawing with his wrong hand, thats why.

Brian CraneStephan PastisTom Richmond

3 Nominated…..awards May 25 in Las Vegas

For those who miss the obvious it’s self mocking. Been nominated four times, didn’t win three times. Maybe this time. But pig’s right the pantry is full, why not store some beans on that shelf?

Bean seeing you…

I was a little jarred by this strip

The dark alter ego of Pastis can say to us what the man himself dare not!

Or are those canned garbanzos? I thought they came in jars. Mostly I see them at salad bars where they’re free to go visit the other vegetables in their perspective bowls. Are there free roaming garbanzo beans?

Never heard of Tom Richmond?

Pearls has:- http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2006/08/27

How wry he has never won the Reuben.

Seriously, Stephan is in good company. I’d love to see PBS win the award this year.

Gee, in just a decade or so, Pastis will be eligible for the Susan Lucci Award.

I know that Pastis is probably going with what he thinks the majority of his fans like, but I’m in the minority that is getting really tired of him being a character in his own strip. It was my favorite strip there for a while, and I still like it a lot in general, but…

If he wins this award, I wonder if it will make him better or worse in that regard.

I know a deli that serves an award winning Reuben

Wait – what did he win that Cathy Guisewite presented to him? Or was he making a joke about if he won with his luck Cathy would be the presenter?

Rat is sooo mean – I love him!!!!

Jeez…at least he’s in a position to lose. Most of us aren’t even allowed to join the NCS… I can’t believe I’m seriously jealous of someone else’s losing streak. How pathetic.

Those are canned garbanzo beans, seems one of his fans sent him a whole case of them.

No cigarette?

The National Cartoonists Society awarded Pearls Before Swine the Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2003 and in 2006.

Wonder what Breathed and Watterson are up to these days?The pressure to perform seven days a week has to take a toll.Much less dealing with syndicates and editors,etc…and yourself…and Rat.

By the way, although the whole NCS event is usually refered to as “the Reubens”, strictly speaking “the Reuben Award” is the top honor, “Cartoonist of the Year.” Like the Nobel for Literature, it’s given for “body of work” and it can go to anybody. One of last year’s nominees was Glenn “Billy” Keane, who’s now an animator at Disney. (Jeff “Jeffy” Keane is the current head of the NCS, so I suspect string-pulling both in Glenn’s nomination and in his loss; classic passive-aggressiveness by The Jeffy.)

Get that man a Reuben!

PBS is a great strip. I hope Pastis wins.

I LOVE the 5th Panel!

Poor Poor Stephan!

xxx

How cheesy to mention the Reuben…

how i love sunday strips…wikipedia says hes wan the reuben…

I was expecting a pun strip. This is funny too though. Although, I do prefer when the focus is on the characters within the strip and not on the cartoonist. But since Pastis is the only one I know of who does it and he does it well, I can’t complain.

Canned garbanzo IS the trophy for mediocrity.

Hey Pastis- Garbanzo Beans are deserving of a home too!

I for one love when he includes himself. It shows he is actually working. If he didn’t include himself we would probably assume a computer is creating his work.

Re Great Cartoonists. It’s like baseball – no player ever bat 1000 – and no cartoonist has been funny every time. Babe Ruth bat .342. So if a cartoonist is really funny one out of three times – he’s top notch. I tend to think of funny cartoons as a hit, an extra base hit, and occasionally, a home run. Lately “Pearls” and “Fuzzy” have jokes within the joke – one character telling a joke to another. Good theater. In such cases the cartoonist could rate the joke at the bottom of the frame: “strikeout” “pop fly” “ground to short” “aboard on an error” “base hit” “extra base hit” “home run”. This is just an idea for a running gag – might catch on.

Re: Great Cartoonists. It’s like baseball – no player ever bat 1000 – and no cartoonist has been funny every time. Babe Ruth bat .342. So if a cartoonist is really funny one out of three times – he’s top notch. I tend to think of the really funny cartoons as “a hit” “extra base hit” “home run”. Somewhat funny cartoons could be “a walk” “aboard on an error”. Lately “Pearls” and “Fuzzy” have jokes within the joke – one character telling a joke to another. Good theater. I thought it would be funny in such cases to have something like subtitles at the bottom of the frame “strikeout” “pop fly” “ground to short” “aboard on an error” “base hit” “extra base hit” “home run”. This is just an idea for a running gag – might catch on.

I’ve never had a Reuben Sandwich made with Garbanzo beans.

Please, please!! not (shudder) garbanzo beans! but chickpeas!!

From wikipedia:

Pastis was nominated for the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007. He won the 2003 and 2006 awards. He was also nominated for The Reuben Awards for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Naah, that’s just the SECOND-highest honor. The highest is “the laugh”, and he’s gotten TONS of those! :-)

Actually, Pastis won the Reuben Award this year. :D

actually a higher award has been given although it was not a cartooning award. doonsebury by garry trudeau has won a pulitzer the highest literature award.

Stephster?

this aged poorly, though I bet a million other people already said that