- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stephan Pastis
- Inks
- Stephan Pastis
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody
- Characters
- Rat; Goat; Croc; Pig; Danny Donkey
- Keywords
- Freak show; freakshow; poster
Inside front cover; mock freak show poster
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out
Half-title page; list of available books; title page; front matter; dedication
- Script
- Stephan Pastis
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cartoonists are shut-ins.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- Elephant gun; prom
Introduction
- Script
- Stephan Pastis
- Pencils
- Stephan Pastis
- Inks
- Stephan Pastis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset; Stephan Pastis
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's with the discus?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Rat; Pig; Goat; Zebra; Crocs; Guard Duck; Mr. Snuffles; Stephan Pastis
- Keywords
- Newspaper comic strip; police; predator
Collection of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips (Sundays in color), with interspersed commentary by Stephan Pastis. Notable story arcs include: pirate cleaner; cool fence; Larry the Croc in the zoo; Larry in Wonderland; Bippy the merchandisable character; kill the Google; Katie the drama cow; Crocs invade Zebra's house; pachyderm peace officer; Rat lobbying firm; drilling for gophers.
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Drawings You Probably Never Saw
Section title page
- Script
- Stephan Pastis
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Sunday comics page is an odd animal.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- Cartoonist; newspaper comic strip
Section introduction
- Pencils
- Stephan Pastis
- Inks
- Stephan Pastis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pearls Before Swine
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Rat; Pig; Goat; Zebra
- Keywords
- Newspaper comic strip
Eleven full-page Sunday introductory panels, often omitted by newspapers due to space considerations. Interspersed commentary by Pastis. Includes parodies of Pearl (Janis Joplin album cover), The Joshua Tree (U2 album cover), Ramones (the Ramones album cover), Help! (Beatles album cover), Nevermind (Nirvana album cover), Night Owls (Edward Hopper painting), and American Gothic (Grant Wood painting).
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stephan Pastis
- Inks
- Stephan Pastis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Rat; Pig; Goat; Croc; Danny Donkey; Stephan Pastis [as barker]; Gwen Hefner [as carnival performer]
- Keywords
- Carnival; circus; freak show; freakshow; sideshow
Inside back cover. Mock freak show poster, with sepia finish.
- Pencils
- Stephan Pastis (artwork); Thomas Gibson (photograph)
- Inks
- Stephan Pastis (artwork); Thomas Gibson (photograph)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cover design: Tim Lynch and Holly Ogden
- Characters
- Pig; Gwen Hefner [as carnival performer]
Back cover. Sepia photograph.