Stephan Pastis
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born
January 01, 1968
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San Marino, The United States
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Comics & Graphic Novels
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Scott Adams, Charles Schulz, Gary Larson, Darby Conley
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Stephan Pastis was born in 1968 and raised in San Marino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in political science. Although he had always wanted to be a syndicated cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he entered UCLA Law School in 1990 and became an attorney instead. He practiced law in the San Francisco Bay area from 1993 to 2002. While an attorney, he began submitting various comic strip concepts to all of the syndicates, and, like virtually all beginning cartoonists, got his fair share of rejection slips. Then, in 1997, he began drawing Pearls Before Swine, which he submitted to the syndicates in mid-1999. In December, 199...more
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"Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)"
— Stephan Pastis (Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury)
— Stephan Pastis (Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury)
"Everyone cites [Charles Schulz], but it’s with good reason. He taught me timing, tone, character development, practically everything."
— Stephan Pastis
— Stephan Pastis
"Gary Larson: The funniest cartoonist I’ve ever seen. His two-volume set (The Complete Far Side) should be the textbook in any course taught on how to be funny on the comics page."
— Stephan Pastis
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