One popular recurring feature in Stephan Pastis's comic strip, Pearls Before Swine, is the group of carnivorous crocodiles ...

Watterson is a longtime “Pearls” fan, the “Calvin and Hobbes ... and his characters – Rat, Pig, Goat and Zebra – are drawn with blunt simplicity. Watterson is one of the finest ...

“Pearls” creator Stephan Pastis revealed why ... Libby — Watterson — fills those panels with crocodiles, a zebra, pig, and mouse, a martian robot attack, and beautiful women fawning ...