# Kevin & Kell / Pearls Before Swine Crossover **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804 "2006-07-31T23:56:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/1 "2006-07-31T23:56:14Z")
I’m not sure, but I think today’s [Kevin & Kell](http://www.kevinandkell.com/2006/strips/kk20060731.gif) is the first time there’s ever been a crossover (only in the sense of using characters, not a full story) in a K&K strip. No particular point to this post; I just found the appearance of the crocodile mildly interesting and thought I’d mention it. I don’t read Pearls Before Swine anymore, so does anyone know if the crossover has ever gone the other way? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/2 "2006-08-01T00:02:00Z")
I’m not sure I’m reading your parenthetical comment correctly, but wasn’t there a crossover with GPF for a storyline where the Mutex threw Nick and Ki into Domain? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/3 "2006-08-01T00:10:25Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’m not sure I’m reading your parenthetical comment correctly, but wasn’t there a crossover with GPF for a storyline where the Mutex threw Nick and Ki into Domain? Quite true, & the story is available in TPB/Dead Trees format. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/4 "2006-08-01T08:42:23Z")
D’oh! You’re quite right. I must not have had my brain screwed in tight this morning. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/5 "2006-08-01T19:03:49Z")
This isn’t really a “crossover,” per se. I’d say it’s more of a parody/tribute. Cartoonists make references to other cartoonists’s work all the time. They seem to love it. I know Charles Schulz, for example, was delighted whenever another cartoonist parodied his characters and collected the original artwork from many of those cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/6 "2006-08-01T20:07:45Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > This isn’t really a “crossover,” per se. I’d say it’s more of a parody/tribute. Cartoonists make references to other cartoonists’s work all the time. They seem to love it. I know Charles Schulz, for example, was delighted whenever another cartoonist parodied his characters and collected the original artwork from many of those cartoons. There is also one day each year where different comic strip artists (presumably from the same syndicate) will switch and draw each other’s cartoons. I’m not sure I’m remembering this correctly, but I seem to recall a particularly brilliant “Luann” drawn by “Zippy the Pinhead” creator Bill Griffith. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/7 "2006-08-01T20:16:14Z")
Oops, I had it all wrong, according to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip_switcheroo): > [@](#): > > The Comic strip switcheroo (also known as the “Great Comics Switcheroonie” or the “Great April Fools Switcheroonie”) was a series of jokes played out between comic strip writers and artists, without the foreknowledge of their editors, on April Fool’s Day 1997. The Switcheroo was masterminded by comic strip creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, creators of the Baby Blues daily newspaper comic strip. So it was only one day, but obviously it made an impact on me. I figured they did it every year. And I was wrong about “Luann” too. “Luann” was drawn by Dan Piraro (Bizarro) and Bill Griffith drew “Bizarro.” (“Zippy” was drawn by the creator of “Fox Trot.”) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/8 "2006-08-02T07:16:41Z")
Pearls Before Swine references other comics all the time. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/9 "2006-08-03T01:16:11Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Pearls Before Swine references other comics all the time. Yes, but so well, like the Family Circle being in Gitmo for harboring Bin Ladin. 🙂 And who was Rat baby sitting for when he sent the kids out for beer, the Family Circle again? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/10 "2006-08-03T01:31:42Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Yes, but so well, like the Family Circle being in Gitmo for harboring Bin Ladin. 🙂 > > And who was Rat baby sitting for when he sent the kids out for beer, the Family Circle again? Baby Blues, I think. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kevin-kell-pearls-before-swine-crossover/366804/11 "2006-08-03T02:57:29Z")
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