Floundering Fathers: A Pearls Before Swine Collection

Pearls Before Swine #20

by Stephan Pastis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR!

We the people, in order to form a Pig-ful union, establish ruckus, ensure personal futility, provide for the Zeeba defense, promote the general pun-fare, and endure depressing proclivities of Rat and his vulgarity, do ordain and establish this . . . collection of Pearls Before Swine comics!

All of your favorite misanthropic, moronic, pretentious, predatory, political characters are back—plus the Pearls gang! These all-new strips would make our founding fathers . . . well, maybe it’s a good thing they’re not around to see Goat get a Tinder account, Rat campaign as an unabashedly selfish demagogue, or Stephan inflict pun after pun on his unfortunate readers. Floundering Fathers is guaranteed to make you laugh. Or cry. Or roll over in your grave. 
 

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Comic Strips, Humor, Graphic Novels, Cartoon

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 2018

About the author

Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. In December, 1999, he signed a contract with United.
Pearls Before Swine debuted in newspapers in January, 2002, and Pastis left his law practice in August of that year. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in 2003, 2004 and 2007 as "Best Newspaper Comic Strip" by the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) and won the award in 2004 and 2007. Pastis lives with his family in Northern California.

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you've read one Pearls Before Swine book, you've read them all. But, hey if you haven't seen the strip in a year or two, you'll probably find yourself, as I did, occasionally chuckling over the antics of the one-dimensional characters and their recurring gags. Pastis doesn't have a lot of range, but he's mastered his niche.

[Rex Libris · Rating 5 out of 5]

The usual collection of bad puns and threats against the author by the characters themselves.

This collection does have one of favorite PBS strips. Goat asks Rat about his new job as a court reporter. Rat tells Goat he took it because he wanted to spend more time around lawyers. They both laugh. when they are finished laughing, Rat says, "But seriously, I need the money."

[(a)lyss(a) · Rating 4 out of 5]

For new readers and fans of Pearls Before Swine this is a good collection!

Full of puns, the origins of Pearls Before Swine, and Rat's bid for president this collection is relevant and funny. The over the top nature of some of the puns is impressive. The comic strips remain interesting and funny.

Overall it's a good read!

[Stella · Rating 2 out of 5]

I tried. Really, I did. My kids think these are funny. I've read several Pearls Before Swine books now and I think I laughed once. There are some nuggets of truth, and a little vocabulary building, so I don't mind my kids reading them. But the author is so self-deprecating, I can hardly stand it. I need more happy with my comics. Sorry.

[Matti Karjalainen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Söisimmekö lehmiä, mikäli ne osaisivat kirjoittaa runoja?

Stephan Pastis tarjoilee uuden annoksen perusvarmaa "Pearlsia".

[Cathy Hodge · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of funny Comic strips. I love these sooooo much. The cartoonist is very clever.

[Marieke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pearls before swine doesn't disappoint.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bad, bad puns. Wishing for more crocs in the next one.

[Scott · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love a good pun, but this was painful.