About the Band

Pear and the Bear is very loosely based on the author’s experiences in her band…

Pearl and the Beard. You should go to their shows.

The Story of our Band Name

The name Pearl and the Beard came about after its first two members spent many long hours raucously deliberating over what they should call their new band. They wanted something memorable, something  quirky, something a little nautical, something that sounded like a story.

Now, one of these first two members really likes beards, and the other one really likes knitting. So it was decided that the word “beard” ought to be part of the name, and that the knitting term “purl” had a nice ring and made a fine compliment. For typographical and associational reasons, “purl” was changed to “pearl,” and all that was left was to figure out how to combine these two words to make one complete, whole, glorious-sounding band name.

They tried The Pearl and Beard, Bearded Pearls, Pearly Beardness, The Beard Pearl Band, and Beardy Von Pearlingston, to name a few.

Pearl and the Beard was the one that stuck.

“But won’t people think that one of us is ‘The Pearl’ and the other one is ‘The Beard?’” one of them asked. “Like ‘The Captain and Tennille?’”

“Nah,” answered the other, “It’s conceptual!”

“And besides, eventually we’ll have more band-mates so it won’t matter.”

“Right!”

Wrong. At their very first performance, the character assignments were instantly made. It didn’t really help that one of these two band members sported a lush facial forest-like beard for some time. We won’t say which one.

But alas, much as there is no ‘Belle’ and no ‘Sebastian,’ rest assured that there is no ‘Pearl’ and no ‘Beard.’ We really just thought it sounded nautical.

Our band name has led to a lot of interesting dialogs, wisecracks, and puns. Pear and the Bear is one of them.

That being said, please note that no characters or events depicted in this comic are entirely factual or factitious.

Also please note that the author takes full responsibilty for the veracity of this story, and if you think she’s making it up, simply challenge her to a thumb-wrestling match so that she may defend her posistion. She will pulverize your measly thumbs into thumb dust.

Yes, Pear has thumbs.