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50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong: A Pearls Before Swine Collection (Volume 13) Paperback – April 6, 2010

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Smart, sharp, and sometimes painfully honest, Pearls Before Swine mocks the flaws and shortcomings of human nature with cynical humor. Stephan Pastis’s key to humor: “When in doubt, kill cute things.”

Cartoonist Stephan Pastis's 50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong is one collection that's destined for the top of the charts. It's pure gold, packed with smart, sharp, and painfully honest comic strips that will rock readers with their clever insights into the human soul.

Pearls Before Swine is Pastis's hilarious comic strip tale of two friends: arrogant, egotistical, "hound dog" Rat, and slow-witted, painfully naive, "teddy bear" Pig. Along with Zebra, the "jailhouse rock" activist; Goat, the "treat me nice" reluctant brain; and the "heartbreak hotel" carnivorous Crocs, Pearls delightfully mocks the flaws and shortcomings of human nature. Ladies and gentlemen, the King has left the building.
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    Pearls Before Swine
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    128 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Andrews McMeel Publishing
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    April 6, 2010
  6. Dimensions
    8.5 x 0.4 x 8.8 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0740791419
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0740791413
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Stephan Pastis is an attorney turned cartoonist. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Law, he worked as a lawyer before trying his hand at cartooning. Pastis lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing; Illustrated edition (April 6, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0740791419
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0740791413
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.4 x 8.8 inches
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Stephan Pastis took an unusual route to becoming a number-one best-selling comics creator: he went to law school. It's not that he didn't want to become a cartoonist - as a child growing up in the Los Angeles suburb of San Marino, he spent many happy hours off by himself drawing. He was routinely called on to create cartoons for his school newspapers. But by the time he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in political science, Pastis - a completely self-taught artist - felt it unlikely that his cartoons would ever be syndicated.

So he found himself sitting in class at UCLA Law School, hopelessly bored, sketching the character Rat (who would later become a mainstay of all his future comic strips). Creative inspiration followed him through graduation in 1993 to his first law firm job in San Francisco, where by 1996 he finally started submitting his comics to syndicates. Persisting through an initial spate of rejections, Stephan Pastis created his signature strip Pearls Before Swine, chronicling his worldview through the misadventures of arrogant Rat, dumb-but-sweet Pig, philosophical Goat, along with a brood of other anthropomorphized animals and many, many puns. The strip was eventually syndicated in 1999 and can now be read in over 800 newspapers, dozens of book collections, and on GoComics.com. Several of the collections have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

In 2013, inspired to break out of the box of a daily comic strip, Pastis took on the new challenge of becoming a children's author, penning the first book in a projected middle grade series called Timmy Failure, about an inept kid detective and his sidekick polar bear. Fail it did not; receiving stellar reviews and becoming an instant New York Times and National Indie bestseller. Now published in nearly 40 languages worldwide, Pastis' defective detective has become a breakout children's book character.

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Doctor Midnight
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Collection of Hilarious Strips
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2016
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Pastis creates, without a doubt, one of the most hilarious comic strips of the past few decades. Hands down. Pastis' irreverent humor, mixing everything from brutally cynical social commentary to cheesy puns, shines through on page after page. The book collects a ton of strips beneath a cover that is, as you can see, fantastic and funny by its self. I highly recommend getting the book.
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JD Willis III
5.0 out of 5 stars This Pearls Fan Isn't Wrong!
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2010
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This compilation of recent Pearls Before Swine strips has some hilarious moments that fans of the strip have come to expect. The Guard Duck and Snuffles the Cat are particularly on target. Just when you think Pearls is going to be predictable, Stephan Pastis pulls a fast one out of his hat to keep the humor fresh and unexpected. It's also nice to see the Sunday strips in color. Great show Mr Pastis.
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Maggie
5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME Comic
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2011
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Pearls before Swine has to be one of the greatest comics ever. He is ALWAYS funny. I do not know how someone can be right on all of the time. Stephen Pastis IS! This is hilarious and am going to buy every one of his other books. worth it!!! If there were 10 stars I would give it 11.
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shae s.
4.0 out of 5 stars My father enjoyed it
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018
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Was given as a gift to my dad as he said he used to read them when he was younger and boy was he surprised to receive it. I enjoyed his face light up like a little kid.
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Leslie G. Phillips-catton
5.0 out of 5 stars Son loves it
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2021
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My son loves these comics!
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H. Jacobs
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Pearl
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2012
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I am addicted to "Pearls Before Swine"! I see it daily in the Washington Post and have bought several of the books. Each strip is a gem! I even reread some of the strips to savor the creativity. I'm glad Stephan Pastis dropped being a lawyer and devoted himself to his real Muse - Cartooning!
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C. Gawrych
5.0 out of 5 stars Just plain funny as heck
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2010
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Stephan is a wonderful artist, and I really enjoy reading Pearls Before Swine. He is intelligent, funny, witty - and sometimes his puns and jokes induce much groaning (in a good way.) I highly recommend you pick up his books, add him on Facebook and check out his videos. I can't wait to get more!
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FLP
5.0 out of 5 stars Pearls Before Swine
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2011
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These books make me break out laughing while I'm reading them. The best comics strips there are today and this is the best of all the Pearls Before Swine!
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