"Neither cast ye your pearls before swine"The daily chronicle of four anthropomorphic animals: a megalomaniac rat, a dim-witted pig, diplomatic zebra, and intellectual goat; Pearls Before Swine is a delicious look into their unique and ever-changing lives.
--- Matthew 7:6
Written and illustrated by ex-litigation attorney Stephan Pastis, Pearls was syndicated on December 31, 2001. Shortly after, Pastis chose to leave his job a pursue his now budding career in newspaper comics.
Pearls has become a daily staple in over 400 newspapers and has won awards recently from The National Cartoonists Society. Many praise Pastis' simple drawing style (most characters have stick limbs, dots for eyes, and often no mouths) as revolutionary. Pastis' states, "People say that they like my strip's simplicity, but I'm doing the best I can to just to get up to that level. I'm not dumbing the art down."
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