“Pearls Before Swine” is a very popular comic strip that appears in several hundred newspapers worldwide. Twice in the strip's first decade, creator Stephan Pastis won the National Cartoonists Society's Best Newspaper Comic Strip award. Publisher Andrews McMeel releases a new "treasury" biannually, collecting approximately two years of the strip. The fifth and splashiest of these, Pearls Blows Up, appeared last year to mark the comic's big one-oh. The animation company RingTales has worked with Pastis to produce dozens of animated shorts and a more extended cartoon treatment may be in the offing. “Pearls” has a plush toy line, which the strip both mocks and plugs regularly.
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