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Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury
Stephan Pastis has done it again with Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury. This edgy comic is the perfect collection of insight and observation on humanity's pitiful plight as seen by an arrogant rat, a half-wit pig, and their insane entourage. Pearls Sells Out gives fans their much-needed dose of humor, wit and biting sarcasm. The book also features thou...more
Paperback, 261 pages
Published
August 18th 2009
by Andrews McMeel Publishing
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I'd read the books collected in this treasury (50,000 Pearl Fans Can't Be Wrong and When Pigs Fly), but I didn't buy them and the treasury was 50% off from B&N. I couldn't not get it.
I almost prefer the treasuries over the individual collections because of Pastis's commentary. One can see very clearly where Rat got his distinctive voice. In addition, Pastis will occasionally discuss his inspiration for various strips, as well as some of his interactions with other cartoonists. I rea...more
I almost prefer the treasuries over the individual collections because of Pastis's commentary. One can see very clearly where Rat got his distinctive voice. In addition, Pastis will occasionally discuss his inspiration for various strips, as well as some of his interactions with other cartoonists. I rea...more
Always great stuff!
This is one of my favorite comic strips to read in the morning. First the artist doesn't take himself too seriously and when he's short on ideas he often draws himself in the comic (generally looking like a bum) and has his characters poke fun at him for not being great. Secondly, its almost always funny. From Rat doing and saying the things you really want to in real life, but not being able to; to Pig's sweetness balancing it out. Oh and of course the crocodiles...always trying to catch Zebra ...more
Similar to the previous of these treasuries. My favorite part is actually his comments on the various strips. It is especially interesting to me to read about reactions from fans and other cartoonists. My favorite: 34% of all people are walking around without a brain. I think the percentage has risen in the US since the strip was published.
ok.....i have forever been a fan of comic strips, and i have to admit that this is one of the first ones that i didn't actually start reading in the paper...however, this now may be my favorite comic strip.....behind get fuzzy that is......
i don't know who i like more....rat or bucky from get fuzzy.....both are so close to how i am it's not even funny.....
i don't know who i like more....rat or bucky from get fuzzy.....both are so close to how i am it's not even funny.....
I do believe that this is his best treasury so far. Pastis' humor is both juvenile and adult, so it appeals to a wide range of ages. You can't help falling in love for those crazy crocs and who can't feel sorry for the innocent yet dumb pig. A great book for any fan of comic strip humor.
Pastis is kind of a rarity, as he's a cartoonist who is just as funny with paragraphs as he is with comics. In this collection, he comments on some of the comics throughout, providing an origin story for a comic, giving insight to what works and what doesn't or just randomly talking about something related. He's a funny dude, so anything he writes is just as funny or funnier than the actual comic.
A lot of comic strip treasuries have commentary, but it's kind of slow-going most of th...more
A lot of comic strip treasuries have commentary, but it's kind of slow-going most of th...more
This is more of a series I enjoy without a lot of dramatic changes, so my rating probably isn't a huge surprise. I like the treasuries because Pastis has many amusing comments on his comic strips throughout the book.
I'm not a regular reader of the funny pages, but I picked up this collection and totally loved it. The guy is really funny and--okay I'll say it--clever.
Can I really list this as a book read? I can't believe I'm doing it, but well, there you have it. I read this stuff.
Very funny comic strip! I wish it was in our newspaper. I'd probably read the comics page more often!
A collection of two previous books but with added commentary by the creator.
I love Guard Duck so much. I wish he were real!
relentlessly dark. i like it.
Lady Lioness
marked it as keepers
Bedroom
I used to not like Pearls Before Swine, because I especially didn't like the crocodiles and they way they talk, but it was one of my younger daughter's favorite cartoons, so I tried it again. I still am not particularly fond of the crocodiles (or the guard duck, for that matter), but I have thoroughly enjoyed the Treasuries. I especially like that he annotates the series, adding another dimension of humor. I am Goat. My daughter is Rat.
awesome! As usual.
Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy are the only comic strips I try to read every day, so although I have read these in daily strip form, it's great to reread them in a collection too. Pig, Rat, Goat and the Crocs are always funny. The commentary by Stephan Pastis makes the collection even better. He comments on about 2/3rds of the strips in the collection and his remarks are funny and insightful.
I would have given it 5 stars--but for some unexplainable reason--it had an end. Perfect for the comic lover. I never get to the Sunday comics but having it in a book was great! I loved it all. The book comes with hilarious commentary be the author and that is something that adds *at least* 2 stars for my review. Love the drawings. Love the jokes. Love the book! Keep em' coming Pastis!
this strip consistently makes me laugh out loud
I'm reading this here and there in between books or when I need a little laugh. I like the way Pastis' mind works. Pig is my absolute favorite of his characters. Silly stuff.
Nice touch putting cartoonist commentary for individual strips and the unreleased stuff in the back. A different reading experience.
I continue to love Pearls - I find myself laughing out loud and looking for the nearest person to share my favorite strips with.
I particularly enjoyed this collection because Pastis adds his reflections and comments to the strips throughout the book.
I miss Calvin and Hobbes, and Pearls is a good replacement. Pastis' well-places, snarky comments are a good bonus as well.
There's not a better comic running than Pearls Before Swine. I like the extra commentary in the treasuries, too.
Another great treasury from Stephan Pastis. I love his commentary - maybe even more than the strips!
I love Pearls Before Swine, the humor is hysterical and the characters are awesome.
Loved reading the latest PBS collection- a guilty pleasure.
So sad I'm done...
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Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He practiced la...more
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“When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.”
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“When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.”
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