This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection

Since 2004, Stephan Pastis has been skewering the funny pages with Pearls Before Swine, a daily strip collected here by Andrews McMeel. This particular volume gathers the earliest strips, introducing the pompous Rat, the naive Pig, and the rest of the cast as they navigate friendship, puns, and the absurdities of modern life. Pastis's sharp, self-aware humor and distinctive cartooning style quickly made the strip a modern classic of the newspaper comic.