Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury

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Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004 - Humor - 256 pages
The Fab Four of the funny pages come together again-this time in their first book treasury.

Rat, Pig, Zebra, and Goat, the central characters of Pearls Before Swine, are back in Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic, the first Pearls Before Swine treasury-supersized for your enjoyment.

But this is no ordinary cartoon treasury. Like the influential Beatles album that inspired the book's title, Sgt. Piggy is full of surprises. In addition to collecting all of the Pearls cartoons that appeared in BLTs Taste So Darn Good and This Little Piggy Stayed Home, cartoonist Stephan Pastis takes readers on a VIP backstage tour of one of the most successful comic strips in newspapers today.

In Sgt. Piggy, Pastis explains the genesis of Pearls (hint: it didn't begin at an artist's easel), why he was initially reluctant to show it to newspaper syndicates (and the surprising reason he changed his mind), the unexpected responses from readers to his work, and which Pearls strips worked and which ones didn't (and how he would have corrected the ones that didn't). The result is a rare and revealing glimpse into the world of Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra. Full of humor and insight, sardonic asides and unexpected truths, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic is a book that comics fans everywhere can enjoy anytime-even when they're 64!

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Contents

Section 1
75
Section 2
176
Section 3
233
Section 4
238
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About the author (2004)

Stephan Pastis was born on January 16, 1968. He received a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and graduated from the law school at UCLA. Before becoming a cartoonist, he practiced law as an insurance defense litigation attorney for 10 years. He is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine, which appears in more than 600 newspapers and the author/illustrator of the Timmy Failure series for young readers. In 2014 his title, We Meet Again made The New York Times Best Seller List.

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