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Issue: Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My! #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2006
 
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Publisher: FlagAndrews McMeel
Brand: UView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 268
ISBN: 97807407615530740761552
UPC/EAN: 978074076155351699
Price: $18.99 CAD
$16.99 USD
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Content Items: 13 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Back cover states that this book collects strips from Nighthogs, and from The Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color covers and interior; black and white interior
Dimensions: 8.5" w x 11" h
Paper Stock: Bond
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Pearls Before Swine
Rat [as Tin Woodsman]; Zebra [as Cowardly Lion]; Goat [as Dorothy Gale]; Pig [as Scarecrow]; Crocs [as flying monkeys]
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The Pearls characters as Oz characters, traveling the Yellow Brick Road. Emerald City in background.
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Inside front cover
"Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!"

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Half-title page; list of available books; title page; front matter; dedication
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"You might not know it by looking at them, but I spend forever writing and rewriting my strips."

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
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typeset; Stephan Pastis
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Zebra; Crocs
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Introduction. How Pastis creates his strips. Sample strip. Reproduced pages of notes.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
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typeset; Stephan Pastis
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Rat; Pig; Zebra; Goat; Crocs; Stephan Pastis; Ho Chi Minh
Did you hear Rat got a job working for 'The New York Times'?
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Collection of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips (Sundays in color), with interspersed commentary by Stephan Pastis. Notable story arcs include: Rat writes for the "Times"; a piggy bank breaks her husband and lives it up on the proceeds; Rat is a feng shui consultant; Pig mistakes a slaughterhouse for a singles bar; the apocalyptic refrigerator; Pig wants wings; Rat and Pig discuss living in a newspaper; Rat holds the strip hostage; Pig falls in love with Mrs. Butterworth; road signs go to the bar; Rat hides out in other strips. Includes the Jerusalem bus Sunday strip.
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Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
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Rat; Pig; Croc
The Good, the Banned, and the Ugly
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"The following seventeen strips are all strips that were either withdrawn or heavily edited prior to publication."

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Stephan Pastis
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Introduction to the section
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
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typeset; Stephan Pastis
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Pearls Before Swine
Pig; Rat; Chicken; Chinese man; Dickie the Cockroach; Cathy (cameo)
Excuse me. sir, but I'm with the State Department, and I'm here to take Ho.
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"So far this century, there have arguably been three breakout hits on the comics page -- The Boondocks, Get Fuzzy, and Pearls Before Swine."

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
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typeset; Stephan Pastis
Subject Matter
Rat; Pig; seal; killer whale; wildlife rehabilitators
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Back cover. One strip repeated from interior.

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