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Pastis, Conley and Stromski explain last month’s cross over appearances

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Alan Gardner Updated: May 22, 2006 at 5:54 am EDT 1 minute 3 comments

Did last months “Pearls Before Swine” and “Get Fuzzy” co-mingling confuse you or crack you up?  For those of you who were caught off guard by the strips, there is a good artcile over at the Hartford Courant about Stephen Pastis, Darby Conley and Rick Stromoski’s inter-comic amiable feud that played out in the funny pages.

From the article:

So why all this inter-comic commingling? Part of it may be the fact that writing a comic strip is a lonely job. Writing your peers into your strips is sort of their version of goofing off at the office water cooler or playing pranks on each other.

“As I said to Darby before, it’s like we’re 6th-graders passing notes to each other, except we’re doing it in front of 25 million people,” Pastis says.

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