Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 16, 2012
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January 17, 2012
Transcript:
Rat: You ever notice how some of the older comic strips always have a wide-eyed open-mouthed guy in the last panel? Pastis: Yeah. It's a visual cue so the reader knows he's just read the punchline. Rat: Why don't your strips have that? Pastis: I don't know... I guess I hope the joke is well written enough that the reader doesn't need an obvious cue like that. ... Get rid of him. Rat: Whoa... now I get this stupid strip. Man: Zoinks!
Why is he smoking? That is a bad example for our kids!