Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Some Pig and Rat

Are you ever disappointed when you read a book and then watch the movie? Perhaps the character isn’t portrayed exactly how you had imagined. Or the voice is all wrong.

Well, I love the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis. I purchased this strip several years ago after the syndicate rep pitched it to me. (For those not-in-the-know, I purchase and negotiate contracts for all of the newspaper’s features, which includes everything from syndicated columns to comic strips to puzzles.) So, you can imagine how psyched I was when I got an e-mail telling me that Pig and Rat and their pals are now animated.

Seconds later, I was on comics.com checking out the cartoon.  I wondered what the Crocs' accents would sound like. If Pig's voice would be what I heard in my head. I wasn't disappointed.

The animated strip, which is produced by Ringtales, runs between 20 and 50 seconds, and includes a brief caption on what that day's strip is about.

My son is a huge Pearls fan, too, and reads the strip every day. I think we have every Pearls book ever published. It's hard not to love the slow-witted Pig and the arrogant Rat.


So, have you ever been disappointed by how a character was portrayed on TV or on the silver screen? If so, which character/movie?

3 comments:

  1. Thank you!!! PBS (haha) is just about my favorite comic. No. Make that IS my favorite comic. Bucky Katt is just too mean to Satchel sometimes.

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  2. Yes. I'm sorry to say but Harry Potter 3 - 7 was disappointing. I so loved the book and Harry's character arc that the movie was just so...well, disappointing.

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  3. Yes. We were really disappointed with the Percy Jackson movie and didn't love Harry Potter 6. I think sometimes we have an idea of who a character is or what part of the story we want shown and the animation/movie doesn't come out the same way.

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