July 25th, 2005
Pearls Before Swine rips us off?
A readers e-mailed this to us. (thanks!) Coincidence? I think not. See today’s Pearl Before Swine Here.
Mind you, he called it the “TOWEL o’ Silence” — But come on now. What’s up, Stephen Pastis??
I guess that’s a sign of our success that lame newspaper strip artists have to totally steal our ideas.
I usually wouldnt call someone out on that, but WTF?
July 25th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Those motherfuckers! That’s sad they cant come up with their own f’n ideas!
I say you brick their ass!
July 25th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
Now you need the Brick of Get Your Own Fucking Ideas.
July 25th, 2005 at 7:57 pm
Shouldn’t it be the Cricket Bat of Get Your Own Fucking Ideas? (Or perhaps The Mace. Chainsaw, anyone?)
July 25th, 2005 at 8:10 pm
Those mother fuckers.
July 25th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
Wasn’t your first Brick of Silence comic recent?
I’m pretty sure Pearls Before Swine works with a big buffer. This might just be a case of coincidence.
Though if he starts posting videos of a scary looking guy beating up Andy Milonokis, well…um, that might be harder to chalk up to coincidence.
July 25th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
No… first Brick of Silence Strip was in March…. then again in May.
July 25th, 2005 at 10:36 pm
I know its been said several times now but THOSE MOTHER FUCKING COCKSUCKERS, I HOPE SOMEONE DOES TAKE A BRICK OF SILINCE AND SHOW THEM ITS KICK ASS ACTION.
SEE YOU IN HELL YOU FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 25th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
Tune in tomorrow!! heheheh
July 26th, 2005 at 12:48 am
That’s what I like to hear, DJ.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:27 am
UPDATE- Got a message from Mr. Pastis:
” DJ,
Until today, I have never heard of or read your comic strip. I don’t even know who you are. The Pearls strip you reference was drawn on March 3, 2005.
Your statement is a) false; b) made publicly on a professional comics message board; and c) an implied accusation of fraud.
Stephan ”
Is that a veiled legal threat or something?? Hurm…
July 26th, 2005 at 3:39 am
I say fuck the fucking fuckers
July 26th, 2005 at 3:44 am
Um…Stephen there was a lawyer before getting into comics. (Yes, i’ve looked him up.)
July 26th, 2005 at 8:16 am
doesn’t matter if he SAYS it was drawn on the 3rd of March. It matters if it was PUBLISHED, online in print, or in a form where people saw it. That’s like creating Spiderman in your sketchbook, and coming to Marvel in 1970 and saying, “ummmmm….I already created this character back in the early 50’s. It was actually drawn on May 4th, 1956. So you’re techinically stealing MY idea” bad analogy, but you get hte idea.
July 26th, 2005 at 9:22 am
The writer didn’t say a word about the dialog. He might’ve had something entirely different in there, and just didn’t want to mention when it was written. If he wants to use the vague legal mumbo jumbo, theres no point in not asking:
Hey, you! When’d ya write that?
July 26th, 2005 at 11:37 am
Yessss, the shovel of comic anarchy.
July 26th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
I say give the guy the benefit of the doubt. I really don’t think he’d peruse the online comics for ideas to steal. I know I’ve had vague ideas of “[heavy object] of silence” before I ever read your comic, so it’s not totally impossible that this is a coincidence. Besides, it’s not even “brick o’ silence,” and it’s not like he couldn’t put that in their strip if he wanted to. Newspaper comics may be more watered down in general, but it’s not like the whole thing is run by nuns.
July 26th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
I’d hate to break it to you, but your idea wasn’t that amazingly original that it couldn’t be a coincidence. I dig your comic, but you are certainly overreacting.
July 26th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Josh, actually, print comics do seem to be run by nuns. I mean, for god’s sake, Doonesbury got censored today for having Bush call Karl Rove a “turd blossom”. A bunch of papers either pulled or edited the strip. Don’t believe me? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050726/ap_en_ot/doonesbury_language
July 26th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
Pearls Before Swine is pretty edgy by normal syndicate standards. For instance, this strip drew some attention for pissing on the syndicates. http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20050626.html
I still think it was coincidence, but, hey, it’s great drama, and nobody knows drama like Yirmumah! (Ooh, new slogan!)
October 11th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
Okay, seriously. Pearls Before Swine has several things like that…. “Box o’ Stupid People,” for example. Pastis is known for it. Get over yourself; just because you’re so conceited that you think something like this has anything to do with your strip, it doesn’t mean that it’s great enough to be ripped off. And honestly, I doubt it was. Your idea, as mentioned by others, is not that creative in the first place. It’s very likely that something like that can be spawn in the brains of other human beings. Oh, and do not EVER call Stephan Pastis lame. He’s the best cartoonist I’ve seen in ages. And, if you’re going to diss him, at least get his name right. I was cringing when I read that.
October 11th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
Kiwi of Death! You’re a dick!