Pearls before Swine fans, todays comic made me laugh out loud!

[sasquatch]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/umedia/20070408/cp.7d205158eee6460736af744a35e01192
:rofl:

[grannylib]

1. I was rolling at that one...it's one of the best on the funny pages.

[sasquatch]

2. I love the crocidiles and the zeebra's meetings and conflicts.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I just can't get into that strip. After Foxtrot stopped, we got Pearls Before Swine.

I have yet to laugh at one.

It's just awful. Not as awful as some others, but it's awful.

Even this one that you said was really funny was, to me, utterly not funny at all. It's just fucking dumb.

[sasquatch]

4. Why did they pull Foxtrot?

[opiate69]

7. The Creator of the strip decided to go into semi-retirement..

It runs now as a Sunday only strip
http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468

FoxTrot to Cease Dailies
Kansas City, MO (12/05/2006) Bill Amend’s popular FoxTrot comic strip will go to a Sunday-only publication schedule as of Dec. 31, 2006, announced Universal Press Syndicate today. The last daily will be Saturday, Dec. 30. Reruns of dailies will be available for Web usage.

“After spending close to half of my life writing and drawing FoxTrot cartoons, I think it’s time I got out of the house and tried some new things,” said Amend. “I love cartooning and I absolutely want to continue doing the strip, just not at the current all-consuming pace. I’ve been blessed over the years with a terrific syndicate, patient newspaper clients, and more support from readers than I probably deserve, and I want to assure them all that while I’ll be now a less-frequent participant on the comics pages, I’ll continue to treat my visits as the special privilege they are.”

Amend, who started the strip in April, 1988, and who has more than 1,000 client newspapers, is taking time to pursue other creative outlets. “In addition to Sunday newspapers, we may see FoxTrot entertaining us in other kinds of media platforms,” says Lee Salem, president and editor of Universal Press Syndicate.

Amend has more than 30 published FoxTrot comic collections and has licensed his characters for calendars and wallpapers for cell phones. He was nominated in 2006 as a finalist for cartoonist of the year by the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award.

[InternalDialogue]

5. Zeebas!

I read the paper about once a month, but if Pearls Before Swine is running Crocodiles vs. Zeebas that day, I count myself lucky.

[sasquatch]

8. I love the crocidiles

I wonder if they're supposed to be an alagory?
:shrug:

[Mike Daniels]

9. I don't think they're supposed to be anything other than incompetent predators

When the cartoonist has wanted to make a political statement or reference (which he rarely does) he's been pretty obvious about the intent.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. That's totally nicked from Monty Python!

Episode 30, "Life and Death Struggles":


Here we see an enraged pantomime Princess Margaret; she is lying in wait for her breakfast. The unsuspecting breakfast glides ever closer to its doom. The enraged pantomime royal person is poised for the kill. She raises her harpoon and fires! Pang! Right in the toast! A brief struggle and all is over. Poor breakfast. Another victim of the.... aargh!


:D