Comics (Part I) - Pearls before Swine
Like I said, I love comics!
Today onwards, I'd like to feature some "not-so-famous" (at least, amongst my friends!) strips that I find really amazing!
First, the fascinating Pearls Before Swine by Stefen Pastis. Pastis is God when it comes to sarcasm, dark humor and wordplay. Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) rates him very highly.
Today onwards, I'd like to feature some "not-so-famous" (at least, amongst my friends!) strips that I find really amazing!
First, the fascinating Pearls Before Swine by Stefen Pastis. Pastis is God when it comes to sarcasm, dark humor and wordplay. Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) rates him very highly.
PBS revolves around the antics of (mostly) a megalomaniac Rat and his super-dumb (but super sweet) friend Pig. Click here for the official "curtain-raiser" to the strip!
Other important characters are the Goat (the most sane character with strong political opinions and who writes a blog which nobody reads), the Zebra (a wise one, mind you, who is worried about the plight of his brothers in Africa who get eaten relentlessly by Crocodiles and Lions), the fraternity of Zeeba Zeeba Eaters (a bunch of super-stupid crocodiles who device hilarious plans to kill and eat their "Zeeba neighba") and, of course, Pig's personal security, the Duck.
More info on the characters here.
Some of the strips:
Pig and his unbelievable stupidity:
A small 'series' that kinda made me think why somebody feels bad when he's called a Dog ;-) :
An example of how to bring out non-sensical humor from the deepest trenches of absurdity. The last one in the series had me split into pieces due to uncontrollable laughter:
The Zeeba Zeeba fraternity. They Rock!!:
An example of Pastis' proper PJ-level wordplay:
An amazing thing about Rat is the way he makes fun of his creator (Pastis, who at times makes "guest appearances" in the strip too!) and regards his as a jobless bloke with a terrible sense of humour. Why, he even quit the strip once upon a time!
I just love the "crossover"s (when characters from other comic strips make an appearance in PBS.) They're too funny! I'll write a seperate blog entry on them later. Even some celebs keep making "guest appearances" in this strip, usually to get ridiculed like anything!
Go to comics.com for recent strips (updated daily). PBS archive can be found at here . These guys have all the strips from Jan 2004, I guess. The Wikipedia article on PBS is very informative. However, it says that the strip startetd on 31st Decmber, 2001, while the earliest strip I have dates back to as far as 23rd February, 2001!
Just before I sign off for the day, here's one of the first strips that I saw when I found PBS. Made me fall in love with Pig instantly! Isn't he just adorable :-)?
More later.
Other important characters are the Goat (the most sane character with strong political opinions and who writes a blog which nobody reads), the Zebra (a wise one, mind you, who is worried about the plight of his brothers in Africa who get eaten relentlessly by Crocodiles and Lions), the fraternity of Zeeba Zeeba Eaters (a bunch of super-stupid crocodiles who device hilarious plans to kill and eat their "Zeeba neighba") and, of course, Pig's personal security, the Duck.
More info on the characters here.
Some of the strips:
Pig and his unbelievable stupidity:
A small 'series' that kinda made me think why somebody feels bad when he's called a Dog ;-) :
The Zeeba Zeeba fraternity. They Rock!!:
An example of Pastis' proper PJ-level wordplay:
An amazing thing about Rat is the way he makes fun of his creator (Pastis, who at times makes "guest appearances" in the strip too!) and regards his as a jobless bloke with a terrible sense of humour. Why, he even quit the strip once upon a time!
I just love the "crossover"s (when characters from other comic strips make an appearance in PBS.) They're too funny! I'll write a seperate blog entry on them later. Even some celebs keep making "guest appearances" in this strip, usually to get ridiculed like anything!
Go to comics.com for recent strips (updated daily). PBS archive can be found at here . These guys have all the strips from Jan 2004, I guess. The Wikipedia article on PBS is very informative. However, it says that the strip startetd on 31st Decmber, 2001, while the earliest strip I have dates back to as far as 23rd February, 2001!
Just before I sign off for the day, here's one of the first strips that I saw when I found PBS. Made me fall in love with Pig instantly! Isn't he just adorable :-)?
More later.posted by Suryadeep at
11:54 PM
2 Comments:
Umm..not much if you don't watch Friends..but really feel like saying "you're so pretty"..Rachel says this JOey btw..so..nothing grossly inappropriate. :P
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Freespirit, At
12:52 AM
I thought I was the only one in this city who was this much in love with Pearls before swine!! I had some strips put up a while ago and no one cared!! :( Now I shall come out of my spere of isolation and put up more!
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That Squirrel, At
5:30 AM
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