Pearls Before Swine - Saturday December 4, 2004 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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"A Message from Pearls before Swine, Inc." "Dear Pearls Reader: We interrupt today's scheduled strip to bring you this announcement. Late last evening, we received a letter from the attorneys for Scott Adams, who has been featured in this week's series of strips. The attorney for Mr. Adams allege that Pearls has "falsely portrayed the Dilbert creator as a bizarre, obese, inarticulate and reclusive Elvis impersonator who sits behind the gates of his mansion shooting televisions, ripping his pants, and indulging in illegal narcotics. The attorney for Mr. Adams have asked that Stephan Pastis, the creator of the offending strips, leave an apology and a retraction. In addition, the attorneys have demanded that the first two panels of today's strip be withheld from newspapers. According to the attorney's letter, the panels in question took the Elvis analogy to "an inappropriate extreme" portraying Mr. Adams atop a toilet, whereupon he subsequently expired igominiously of a drug overdose." While the creator of Pearls will issue neither an apology nor a retraction, he has agreed to withhold publication of the first two panels. We rejoin the strip in progress." "...And he was such a promising cartoonist."

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