Talk:List of Pearls Before Swine books

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Da Crockydile Book o' Frendsheep contents
Does anyone know what the contents are of the Da Crockydile Book o' Frendsheep book? Namely, is it all new material, or is it material that ran in newspapers, or both? -Joltman (talk) 16:06, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a collection of crocodile-related strips. B-Con (talk) 21:30, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Treasury Covers
This probably isn't worth mentioning on the page, but has anyone else noticed that Peanuts and Dilbert make appearances on the covers to The Crass Menagerie and Pearls Sells Out? I know the character of Dilbert appears on the cover of Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic from looking at it on Amazon, so maybe it means nothing. But this seems kinda interesting to me, almost as if Pastis is really trying to thank Schulz and Adams for his success. I know he's talked about meeting with Charles Schulz (in fact he called him his cartooning hero in Pearls Sells Out) and getting encouragment from him to pursure a career in comics. And Scott Adams really helped to make the strip popular. But looking at these two treasuries these comics stand out for a reason.

Looking at both front and back on The Crass Menagerie I can identify five comic strips as having books there. In the bookshelf you'll find a Peanuts treasury (looks to be The Complete "Peanuts" 1950 -1952) and a Dilbert book/calendar on the second shelf along with the first two Pearls treasuries and what's probably a day by day Pearls calendar. Third shelf is a Calvin and Hobbes book (obvious on the back cover but slightly hidden by the Viking figuring sitting on the shelf on the front). Then on the floor by the croc just beneath Goat you have three Family Circus books and a second Peanuts book (Violet and Snoopy on the cover are the real tip of, but the book looks to read We're with Charlie Brown as it's title). What really causes me to see a Peanuts and Dilbert tribute here is the Dilbert plushie (which has gone missing on the back cover) and the Charlie Brown figurine. Of the five obviously the Pearls stuff can be ignored because it's a Pearls treasury. Their great touches, especially the first two treasuries, but their not really a possible tribute to other comic strips. So that leaves Clavin and Hobbes and Family Circus, neither which I know of having any offical figures done for. Though they could have and I just don't know it (though there is a lot of unoffical Calvin and Hobbes stuff). But the books and figures really make these two stand out to me.

Then there's Pearl's Sells Out Of course it has all those Pearls plusies on the front cover, and very few are left on the back (mostly Zebra (two whole for certain and a possible third, the rest have been trashed by the crocs) but there appears to be a croc and there is a Rat). However, there are a couple of non Pearls plushies. If you look at the third shelf from the top, right behind Rat in fact, on the front cover you'll find Snoopy in what looks to be a red fez. A sea of Rats, Pigs, Zebras, and crocs and Snoopy sticks out like a sore thumb. Then on the back cover look in Pig's dust pan. All the remains of trashed Zebra plushies don't hide the Dilbert plushie.

Peanuts and Dilbert aren't the only strips to have had merchandise done for them (Garfield comes to mind), but they are the only ones to have merchandise other than books appear on Pearls treasuries. And they are two of the influences on Pastis style.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it. Like I said, it may not be worth mentioning, especially without a reason for understanding why there there. - annonymous 6/05/10 4:16 AM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.4.153 (talk) 08:17, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Pearls Falls Fast Missing Panel
The article says that page 147 of this treasury is missing a panel. I checked my copy against GoComics archives and can't find a missing panel. Both have six panels. In the archive there are three top panels and three bottom panels. In the book there are three rows of panels, two top, two middle, and two bottom panels. I don't see that my copy is a second edition. Is it possible that either whoever wrote that part was being misleading to make people check the page (as I obviously did) or they were looking at a copy with a mistake in it? Should it be kept that the panel is missing in either case? I can scan my page, blurring out text so people either have to get the books or go to GoComics to read the actual strip, if people need proof there is no missing panel. -anonymous 8/25/2015 3:37 PM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18B:0:9141:CC9B:C2DE:91DB:5547 (talk) 19:38, 25 August 2015 (UTC)