'Pearls Before Swine' Comic Creator In Movie Deal Talks

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of reading “Pearls Before Swine,” we point you here. For those with link fatigue (or if you’re “reading” this on your talking Kindle), we describe the popular comic strip as Itchy and Scratchy meets Garfield with a dollop of postmodern storytelling (see ya, fourth wall!). An inarticulate fraternity of crocodiles is also involved. Today Galleycat, our bookish brother blog, reports that “Pearls Before Swine” creator Stephan Pastis has begun talks with an unnamed studio to bring his syndicated strip to the silver screen in an animated feature.