Pearls Before Swine (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, who was formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California. It chronicles the daily lives of five anthropomorphic animals, Pig, Rat, Zebra, Goat, and Guard Duck, as well as a number of supporting characters. Pastis has said each character represents an aspect of his own personality and world view.[1] Pearls is distributed by Universal Uclick as of 2011; previously, United Media's United Feature Syndicate distributed the strip.
Although created in 1997, it was not published until 2000, when United Feature Syndicate ran it on its website. Its popularity rose after Dilbert creator Scott Adams, a fan of the strip, showed it to his own fans.[2]
United Feature launched the strip in newspapers beginning December 31, 2001, in The Washington Post.[3] On January 7, 2002, it began running in approximately 150 papers.[4] As of September 2011, the strip was appearing in 750 newspapers worldwide.[5]
The strip has become somewhat controversial due to its use of adult humor, mock profanity, violence, drinking and drug references and a few references to Middle-Eastern terrorism.
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