This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection (Volume 2)

About this book

The National Cartoonists Society nominated Pearls Before Swine as one of the best comic strips of 2002. Pearls Before Swine is an impressive comic strip success story. After only a few years of syndication it appears in more than 150 newspapers worldwide was nominated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society in its debut year-an unprecedented achievement-and its first book collection Pearls Before Swine has sold through four printings. This Little Piggy Stayed Home continues the adventures of Rat and Pig two characters who couldnt be more different-or more surprising. Rat is your typical Every Rodent: scheming self-centered and more than occasionally manipulative. By contrast Pig is sensitive kind and-even on his best days-just plain stupid. Together with Zebra and Goat they confront the strange and wonderful world around them a place that looks suspiciously like our own. By turns thoughtful and subversive silly and sophisticated This Little Piggy Stayed Home is one of the funniest comic collections out there.