Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 22, 2020

Hey, Goat and Rat, six feet apart!

Two questions: What does Pig keep in that box, and how did he get it into the country?

Rat, I just don’t know if it will work for you. You may require years of therapy and pharmaceuticals.

Little kids and rabbits have known the secret to happiness: it is not the contents in a box, but the box itself.

This seems really really similar to a much older strip

I couldn’t find a big one, so my Happy Box is much smaller. I have to put it over my head.

Still works, though. As long as I don’t have to drive anywhere.

Happiness smells like Corn Flakes.

A wise person knows that news of hope doesn’t glue as many eyeballs to the screen or sell as many papers as gloom and doom do.;-D

I want one of those!

maybe the secret is to just not watch the news…

We sure could use a box or two of happiness around these parts, Pig!

Many times the box a toy came in was just as much fun as the toy itself. The box could be an airplane , spaceship , boat and the list goes on and on ! …. Croc Power !

I’m in my ‘Happy Box’ as I write this…Ooo…So many TOYS……….so what to go play in the park with them.

We need the distraction.

He bought it from Calvin and Hobbs

I watch the news in the morning to see how well we’re winning!

Oh, Steph…. You should have gone old school and called it the box o’ happiness!

Us sophisticated types prefer a Transmogrifier box.

Or as John Prine suggested, “You may see me tonight with an illegal smile. It don’t cost very much, but it lasts a long while.”

Kids were Always fascinated with cardboard boxes. My kids would go o the appliance store and get a refrigerator box and play in It until it collapsed LOL I could swear, the whole neighborhood gang was in there…

We could all use a miracle in this time.

Wait. He’s not a cat!

My ‘Happy Box’ is five acres of Ozark hillside. Social distancing is only going into town once a week for supplies. Too busy to pay any attention to the news.

I huse my cave for this.

It’s all good until somebody suggests sliding down a hill in it.

In my happy box I’m unable to hear trump talking.

My happy box has a lot of beer in it, and timinwsac can’t have any!

I guess with the current pandemic, you only need one theme for your daily script.

The sign on it is essential, though.

It comes as no surprise that Stephan is a “Calvin and Hobbes” fan…

Look, at some point, you’re either going to die of the virus, or you’re not. So wear a mask or whatever, but don’t worry about it.

Cats were ahead of their time.

Don’t think outside of the box. It’s dangerous out there.

Now that’s thinking inside the box.

Since all the news lately has been about the virus, we have essentially stopped watching all but the weather.

Where can I buy one of those Happy boxes?

Pig has the right idea! Get on the Happy Box-wagon, Rat and Goat!

(So what if it is all in your heads?)

This reminds me of that wonderful episode with Spongebob and Patrick: they buy a large TV just to play in the box.

Where’s my happy box? I need it now!

I think we all need one of those.