Stephan Pastis clairvoyance or a master planner?

Last week I posted a letter to the editor by a certain offended reader of the Baltimore Sun who decried the profanity in Pearls Before Swine. Just to be clear, we’re not talking real swear words – we’re talking characters like @#$@. Then on Sunday, Scott Hilburn drops the big #%@!* in his strip.

Yesterday Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis runs a strip making fun of comics teaching kids profanity. It’s like he planned this whole thing.

4 thoughts on “Stephan Pastis clairvoyance or a master planner?

  1. Thanks for the clarification, Alan. I mistakenly thought/assumed the swearing went beyond the characters. I did think Hilburn’s use of them was clever and funny so it’s all in how they’re used.

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