The Saturday Evening Pearls: A Pearls Before Swine Collection

A long-running collection from Andrews McMeel, The Saturday Evening Pearls (2009–present) gathers the best of Stephan Pastis’s daily newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine into a single, hefty volume each year. Known for its sharp, meta-humor and a cast of cynical animals—including the pompous rat Rat and the blissfully naive pig Pig—the series has become a reliable annual snapshot of the strip’s evolving absurdity and pop-culture commentary. Its value lies in preserving the complete Sunday pages in full color, making it a definitive archive for fans of one of modern comics’ most consistently clever and self-aware strips.