What a Croc!

A A A Comments By Susan Froyd Thursday, Oct 13 2011

Reading the comics in the daily newspapers isn’t always as satisfying as it used to be, but some strips persevere by staying totally, completely, indubitably silly. Exhibit A: Pearls Before Swine by self-deprecating comic artist Stephan Pastis, a patchwork of bad puns, goofy animal characters and a coven of stone-dumb zebra-baiting crocodiles, the most famous of which is Larry, the kind of croc who can’t complete a sentence or figure out how to kill the zebra next door. Pastis’s innate silliness must appeal to the kid in everyone, because his strip is a keeper, one of few comics that’s still gaining ground.

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But there’s nothing silly about Pastis’s career path; he’s a reformed lawyer and erstwhile Charles Schulz stalker, as well as a two-time winner of the National Cartoonist Society’s Newspaper Comic Strip Award. Meet him tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street, where he’ll sign copies of his new paperback Pearls Before Swine collection, Larry in Wonderland. Free numbered tickets for the book-signing line will be given out starting at 6:30 p.m.; get more information at www.tatteredcover.com or 303-436-1070.
Wed., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m., 2011

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