“No one I know likes law school. It was a bad experience,” Pence told the Wall Street Journal in 1994. “I wouldn’t wish it on a dog I didn’t like.”

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Fortunately, trying law-school experiences can sometimes lead to creative inspiration. “Pearls Before Swine” creator Stephan Pastis, for instance, grew up so bored in one class at UCLA law school that he began drawing in the margins. (That first-doodled character, for the court record, was the comic strip’s now-famed Rat character.)

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Pence’s law-school challenges led him toward humor as outlet, too.

In the mid-’80s, Pence created the ongoing comic series “Law School Daze” for his law school’s paper, Dictum. The cartoons featured the beleaguered student Daze, and would sometimes mine legal terms for wordplay, such as his image of “Torts Illustrated.”

So just how good — or not — are Pence’s cartoons from that era? The Post’s Comic Riffs decided to ask another “lawyer/cartoonist.”

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“Cartoons by Mike Pence are just about as funny as you’d imagine them to be,” Pastis, the bestselling author and NCS Reuben Award finalist, tells Comic Riffs.

“I’d tell him to stick to his day job,” Pastis continues, “but I don’t like how he does that, either.”

Instead of merely letting Pence be judged by a jury of his peers, Comic Riffs prefers an open courtroom. So here are cartoons from the mind of Mike Pence. You be the judge.

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