question: Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by who, it chronicles the daily lives of five anthropomorphic animals, one being a Zebra?
answer: Stephan Pastis
context: Title: Stone Soup (comic strip)
  Passage: Stone Soup, renamed for the "stone soup" fable, is an internationally syndicated American comic strip written and illustrated by Jan Eliot.  The comic strip began as a weekly in 1990, and ran for five years in the Eugene, Oregon "Register-Guard" under the name "Sister City", before being syndicated.  The syndicated daily strip debuted in November 1995.  Universal Press syndicate reportedly requested the name change because they felt that the original name might be perceived by some readers as too "feminist" in orientation.  In October 2015, the strip ceased daily production but Eliot planned to continue producing the Sunday version.
  Title: Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz
  Passage: Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz was a newspaper comic strip written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Walt McDougall, a political cartoonist for the "Philadelphia North American".  "Queer Visitors" appeared in the "North American", the "Chicago Record-Herald" and other newspapers from 28 August 1904 to 26 February 1905.  The series chronicles the misadventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Sawhorse, as the Gump flies them to various cities in the United States.  The comic strip in turn produced its own derivation, "The Woggle-Bug Book" (1905).
  Title: Lionel's Kingdom
  Passage: Lionel's Kingdom (Turma da Mata) is a Brazilian comic strip created in 1961 and part of the "Monica's Gang" comic strips.  The series is a Funny animal comic strip, with mostly anthropomorphic animals who almost all walking on two feet (except for Tim Turtle), wear clothes, and obviously, are able to speak.  Their home is a forest, presumably in Brazil, although featuring mostly African animals.
  Title: Pearls Before Swine (comics)
  Passage: Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.  It chronicles the daily lives of five anthropomorphic animals: a Pig, a Rat, a Zebra, a Goat, and a fraternity of crocodiles, as well as a number of supporting characters.  Each character represents an aspect of Pastis' own personality and world view.  The daily and Sunday comic strip is distributed by Universal Uclick (by United Media's United Feature Syndicate before 2011).
  Title: Harold Teen
  Passage: Harold Teen was a popular, long-running American comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced "eed").  Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested and certainly approved the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel "Seventeen".  The strip ran from 1919 to 1959.  Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, "Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence.  I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one."
  Title: Zebra
  Passage: Zebras ( or ) are several species of African equids (horse family) united by their distinctive black and white striped coats.  Their stripes come in different patterns, unique to each individual.  They are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds.  Unlike their closest relatives, horses and donkeys, zebras have never been truly domesticated.
  Title: B.C. (comic strip)
  Passage: B.C. is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Johnny Hart.  Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras. "B.C." made its newspaper debut on February 17, 1958, and was among the longest-running strips still written and drawn by its original creator when Hart died at his drawing board in Nineveh, New York, on April 7, 2007.
  Title: One Big Happy (comic strip)
  Passage: One Big Happy is a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Rick Detorie, detailing the daily adventures of a six-year-old girl named Ruthie.  The strip also features her eight-year-old brother Joe, their parents Frank and Ellen, and their grandparents Nick and Rose, who live next door.  The strip's title is a takeoff on the phrase, "One big happy family."  It debuted on September 11, 1988.  The strip takes place on Buena Vista Avenue and in an unspecified city based on Baltimore, Maryland, where the creator grew up.  It is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
  Title: Dilbert
  Passage: Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989.  The strip is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring engineer Dilbert as the title character.  The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items.  "Dilbert Future" and "The Joy of Work" are among the most read books in the series.  Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1997 and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award in the same year for his work on the strip.  "Dilbert" appears online and in 2,000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.
  Title: Peanuts
  Passage: Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.  The comic strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".  At its peak, "Peanuts" ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.  It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.  Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper.
citations: Zebra Pearls Before Swine (comics)