Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis
Stephan Thomas Pastisis an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He has since begun writing children's chapter books, commencing the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made and the second and third Timmy Failure, which debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade Books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 January 1968
CitySan Marino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.
I want to shake things up like Bloom County did, ... When I was a kid I loved Calvin and I loved Far Side and I loved Bloom County. And I loved them because they took risks. You never knew what you were going to see that day. And there's not a lot of strips that do that now.
I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.
I more or less stalked him. I guess that's the right word, ... I waited because I knew what time he came in for his English muffin and all that. Sure enough he showed up. I had some strips I had drawn, and I walked across the room.
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.
I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I took a picture with him. He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. Man, I was on cloud nine.
It was really just a product of hating being a lawyer so much, ... What can I do to get out of doing what I'm doing now?
I have to update that, ... Jo Jo died. He got hit by a car.
If you see me on the comics page, you assume total smart-ass, with no regard to the older strips, ... When it comes to Peanuts, at least, it couldn't be further from the truth. I probably know more than anybody you'd ever meet.
If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.
If you look at other strips from the 1950s, he stuck out like a sore thumb. I'm sure he probably got some of the same complaint letters that I get now,