Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 07, 2012
Transcript:
Pastis: Hey, check it out, Rat... We're scrunching the strip vertically. Rat: What for? Pastis: It creates space above the strip for newspaper readers to write notes and stuff, that way maybe a husband and wife could communicate with each other in the morning without having to waste extra paper. Rat: What do the need to communicate about? Rat: Oh, that worked out well. Pastis: Hey! I thought it was clever! Honey, don't read this strip. It's not funny.
tigre1 about 12 years ago
Only Pastis.
legaleagle48 about 12 years ago
And if it weren’t for the magnifier, I wouldn’t have been able to get the joke. SOME of us don’t have the eyes that we had 20 or 30 years ago, Pastis!
firedome about 12 years ago
So that’s what rat and pastis looks like in HD…(what can i say…i still watch tv on my old analog crt tv…)
Phatts about 12 years ago
HAH! you think somebody read this in newspaper!
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Stephan PLEASE don’t give the Press Democrat any ideas about more ways they can scrunch the comics.
If they find out they can shrink them vertically and squeeze the two columns into one, they’ll do it.
In any event, there won’t be an empty white space for notes…. if the paper doesn’t cram another comic into it, Rat will sell it to advertisers.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
Sadly, Susan is absolutely correct. White space has been a no-no since the demise of the NY Herald-Tribune, back at the early stage of the modern decline of newspapers. It simply would not be allowed in the shrivelled, way-downsized, money-losing, barely surviving paper press of today.Besides, Cartoon-Pastis, although the anonymous scribbler’s comment was incorrect, scrunched cartoons are too hard to read or to appreciate visually. Blow ’em up, big! Bigger!
Hillbillyman about 12 years ago
Well, I thouight it was clever,,,and funny.
knight1192a about 12 years ago
Funy thing is I’ve already seen newspapers that do this with other strips. You think at first it’s the way the strip is done, until you open another paper or go online and see the strip is supposed to be larger. Imagine the folks having to get out magnifying glasses after these papers shrink today’s strip.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Legaleagle and Hillbillyman — having worn glasses since second grade….. sigh….I never had “the eyes I used to have” in the first place…
cilantro55 about 12 years ago
So now one of the best moments of my day was nearly ruined by a stupid idea. Tiny print + aging eyes = morning headache. !@#$%^&!
ReaderLady about 12 years ago
I thought that GoComics was still having display issues. Good thing I have “zoom in” on my laptop.
KEA about 12 years ago
At first I thought it was my vision. Whew.
Reynie about 12 years ago
If the scrunch it horizontally Pig can lose some weight!
Gokie5 about 12 years ago
Looks like someone took a picture with his/her cell phone.
rw1h about 12 years ago
I guess this the polar opposite of “thinking outside the box”…..
TwihardBallerina about 12 years ago
LOL!!!!
Casey Southards about 12 years ago
Some ideas, are not good ones.
ComputerAndPCGuy about 12 years ago
LOL! That worked!
Ermine Notyours about 12 years ago
The Seattle Times did this for Frank & Earnest. They figured it was a single panel strip, so who cares?
lancemay about 12 years ago
yeah, it’s not funny.
tbritt99 about 12 years ago
LOL. Brilliant.
CitizenThom about 12 years ago
I think there are two things that don’t work well together…lots of dialogue, and a vertically compressed comic. That said, I’ll be writing my own notes in today’s newspaper.
Number Three about 12 years ago
Oh be quiet, Rat.
That’s all I can say lately.
LOL xxx
tinachambers about 12 years ago
clever
m.l. about 12 years ago
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
Stephan, if you’re going to show us a “funhouse mirror” image of yourself, you should really go for the “Olive Oyl” version, not the “walking hamburger” version.
Fan o’ Lio. about 12 years ago
Maybe that’s how Flattop got his flat top.
Popeyesforearm about 12 years ago
The dumb-ass Oregonian has shrunk so many comics you need a magnifying glass to read them. Or they chop off the headers and first panels (especially on Sundays). They save so much money on ink and paper that I cancelled my subscription. Idiots.
bmonk about 12 years ago
At least Stephan gave up smoking in this strip. Maybe there wasn’t room?
+++++
It does remind me of the Worms’ pad in “Men in Black II”
dfowensby about 12 years ago
a cartoonist chronically starring himself in his strip. i’d troll this, but it’s just toooo lame.
COMIC-ER about 12 years ago
That’s the joke. That it’s thin. And why “injured”?
Artie Adams about 12 years ago
Two questions: (a) What’s a “newspaper”?(b) What does part (a) have to do with PBS?
kevindix almost 12 years ago
I cannot believe no one remarked on the sad state of affairs where a husband and wife need paper to communicate with each other in the morning.
Larry Croc over 6 years ago
She/he serious. I made dat misstake.