We’ll start today with a Free Range (Creators) that doesn’t inspire any Great Thoughts beyond my memories of setting up trade show exhibits. There was a (thankfully brief) time when trade show booths were stretchy nylon over aluminum frames that, with practice, broke down into components that fit into custom-made rollaway trash bins. After you’d […]
Stephan Pastis often injects himself into his strip Pearls Before Swine, but yesterday he brought in his syndicate boss John Glynn. Michael Cavna asked Stephan what prompted him to mock Universal Uclick’s President and Editorial Director: So, what sparked this heartily applauded decision to get all passive-transgressive? ?Well, the truth is that Glynn is about […]
I admit Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis gets away with things most other features can’t, but this letter to the editor revealing the extent one reader goes to hide the “offensive” strip from his granddaughter is unbelievable. The comic strip ‘Pearls Before Swine’ ranges from just plain stupid to downright offensive. My granddaughters regularly […]
Last night, Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis came to Salt Lake City on his book tour for his new book Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. The Salt Lake Tribute gave him a nice write-up which helped pack the local library where Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley offered a cartoonist’s introduction before Stephan gave a […]
Michael Cavna talks to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis regarding his strip’s success and the state of comic strips. Stephan: ?We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats,“ continues Pastis, bemoaning the state of the industry. ”Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page."
I gave Stephan Pastis a hard time when his last Pearls Before Swine collection came out because the title was so long (Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left Hand: A Pearls Before Swine Collection) and the fact that it seemed like he came out with a book every other month. […]
I’m told The Pearls Before Swine: An Evening with Stephan Pastis event put on by The Cartoon Art Museum has sold out. The book signing is still an option if you want to meet Stephan. The lecture and book signing is this Saturday. If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, check it out.