The key to creating Rat, Pig and the other characters in Pastis’ strip is that they all share some aspect of his personality. It’s the one place that you don’t always have to be correct and you can just let your madness show.” “The one place we should be able to do this sort of thing is fiction, in a comic strip like this,” Pastis said.
The process has become cathartic for Pastis, though that also makes him more resentful when editors try to censor what he can and cannot say or draw with his comics. The side you resort to when you’re at a party and you tell a joke, you don’t spend a lot of time thinking it through, you just say it,” Pastis said. It’s my dumb theory that it forces you to create on the right side of the brain, the more instinctive side. “There’s something about the music that makes it impossible to think on the left side of your brain it doesn’t allow you to think through funny. During his first semester in law school at UCLA, Pastis realized he had made a mistake, but he stuck it out. Pastis was involved in speech and debate in high school, so he thought a career in law would be a good backup plan. He learned that newspaper syndicate services receive 4,000-6,000 comic strip submissions per year and select only a few of them to support.
This little success added to Pastis’ dreams of becoming a cartoonist, but as he grew up, he faced reality. “I submitted this terrible drawing that’s still embarrassing to look at and the Star-News printed it at the top of that section,” Pastis said. Wellington Woof’s Kids’ Korner column in the Pasadena Star-News. He was always drawing as a child, so when he was stuck at home with his annual bout of bronchitis, his mother would keep him supplied with a drawing board and pens.Īt age 11, Pastis won $2 for his first published drawing, “Go Dodgers,” which appeared in the P. Pastis was born in San Gabriel and grew up in San Marino with a number of relatives living in surrounding areas. Pastis will discuss and sign “Pearls Falls Fast: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury” (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19) at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena on March 24. If turning to the comics page to see the adventures of a befuddled pig, a mean rat and some not-so-smart crocodiles makes your morning, then seeing “Pearls Before Swine” creator Stephan Pastis in person will make your week.
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