Eugene woman's frog lands in the funny pages.Byline: The Register-Guard Eugene's Betty Sumner has made the leap to nationally syndicated cartoonist. At least for a day. Sumner's idea of adding a frog to the award-winning comic strip comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of "balloons" containing written speech. , "Pearls Before Swine pearls before swine Jesus adjures one not to waste best efforts. [N.T.: Matthew 7:6] See : Futility ," won a national search for a guest cartoonist. Stephan Pastis Stephan Thomas Pastis (born January 16, 1968) is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Background Pastis was raised in San Marino, California and attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A. , creator of the irreverent ir·rev·er·ent adj. 1. Lacking or exhibiting a lack of reverence; disrespectful. 2. Critical of what is generally accepted or respected; satirical: irreverent humor. strip that follows the lives of Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra, even named the frog "Betty" in Sumner's honor. Betty the Frog can be seen clickity-clacking away on a computer keyboard in a sneak-preview panel of the strip in a recent press release. You'll have to wait until sometime late this spring to see the entire strip revealed. Stay tuned. Ribitt. |
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