Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury

The Fab Four of the funny pages come together again-this time in their first book treasury.<br><br>Rat, Pig, Zebra, and Goat, the central characters of <i>Pearls Before Swine</i>, are back in <i>Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic</i>, the first <i>Pearls Before Swine </i>treasury-supersized for your enjoyment.<br><br>But this is no ordinary cartoon treasury. Like the influential Beatles album that inspired the book's title, <i>Sgt. Piggy </i>is full of surprises. In addition to collecting all of the <i>Pearls</i> cartoons that appeared in <i>BLTs Taste So Darn Good</i> and <i>This Little Piggy Stayed Home</i>, cartoonist Stephan Pastis takes readers on a VIP backstage tour of one of the most successful comic strips in newspapers today. <br><br>In <i>Sgt. Piggy</i>, Pastis explains the genesis of <i>Pearls</i> (hint: it didn't begin at an artist's easel) , why he was initially reluctant to show it to newspaper syndicates (and the surprising reason he changed his mind) , the unexpected responses from readers to his work, and which Pearls strips worked and which ones didn't (and how he would have corrected the ones that didn't) . The result is a rare and revealing glimpse into the world of Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra. Full of humor and insight, sardonic asides and unexpected truths, <i>Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic</i> is a book that comics fans everywhere can enjoy anytime-even when they're 64!