Pearls Before Swine

Most hilarious, ironic, black-humored comics ever made are certainly those by Steven Pastis.

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. However this talented man switched his occupation for comics drawing.

Steven Pastis started Pearls Before Swine in 1997 and it debuted in newspapers in January, 2002. Pearls Before Swine was nominated in each of its first two years as “Best Newspaper Comic Strip” by the National Cartoonists Society and won the award in 2004.

The comics has several main characters: stupid Pig, weird Mouse, clever Goat, zebras and their thick neighbours crocodiles. Pig always acts silly, Rat always acts funny, crocodiles want to eat ‘zeebah-neighbas’, zebras screw it - and all of this with a portion of healthy irony and black humour.

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