Support Pearls!!!!!
If you are in fact reading this, chances are that you are incredibly bored online or you are an avid fan of Pearls Before Swine. If this is the case, then you need to act. The future of Pearls Before Swine rests on the shoulders of we the people. How so? --Money.In order for the strip and Stephan Pastis to continue, we need to support it.
Almost two years ago I emailed Stephan Pastis to praise a hilarious series of strips and I actually received an answer after a while. He was generally cordial and glad for the praise, but then asked where I read the strip. Suddenly it hit me. I'd been reading online for months. That does not help him sell the strips to papers. Of course my excuse could be that Pearls does not even appear in my daily or Sunday paper, but that is not an excuse; that is a challenge. I went on a mission to get Pearls Before Swine into my paper. I emailed the editor multiple times until I received the words that he would give in. Apparently the man's wife had wanted Pearls and my voice from the outside pushed the decision over the edge. Within a few months Pearls premiered in my Sunday paper, yet not just premiered, it fill an entire quarter of the front page. I was so proud.
You can make a difference too. If every Pearls Before Swine fan wrote to their paper, I am sure amazing things would follow. You just have to find an email or address for your editor and make the effort. Do it!
The newspapers are only the beginning. We can do more. It is simple. Buy the books. All of them. You will own the best humor in history and will have supported the continuing of it. Give them as gifts. Buy the desktop calendar for your workplace. Go to the Cafe Press Store and buy some pearls shirts and stuff. By doing all of this you will most likely enlist new fans. Just start being an all out fan yourself.
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