This morning I went to a café and wrote and listened to music as I write, it’s pretty much my standard thing, Monday through Thursday. Before iPods, I would just play the music loud in a room at my house, and when it got to be too much I’d put on headphones, but when the iPod came along, I was able to go outside and go to cafés and do the same thing. Stephan Pastis: Since the very beginning of Pearls, I’ve been listening to music.
How do you use music on a daily basis when making the strip? We spoke with Pastis about a month before the strips ran, and while he didn't let on that something big was coming, he was excited to talk about how music is an essential element in his creative process, the magical experience of his first concert, and how he gets inspiration from Bob Dylan to go against the grain.ĪllMusic: I attended a Q&A you did where you briefly mentioned how important music is to you and your work, so I thought we could get deeper into that. While at UCLA, he drew a popular strip called “Rosen.” It was while was hopelessly bored in a class on the European Economic Community that Pastis first drew “Rat,” a character that would reappear in every comic strip he created thereafter - including Pearls Before Swine.Stephan Pastis blew the minds of comics fans around the world last week when he revealed that the "guest artist" depicted in the week's Pearls Before Swine strips was Bill Watterson, the retired, reclusive mastermind behind Calvin and Hobbes. Although he always wanted to be a cartoonist, Pastis realized that the odds of syndication were slim, so he went to UCLA Law School and became an attorney instead. He holds a degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Pearls Before Swine has a growing list of fans, including Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams who says Pearls is “one of the few comics that make me laugh out loud.” Pastis never had any formal training, but he did draw cartoons for each of his school newspapers as he grew up. Launched in 2002, the strip appears in 750 newspapers worldwide, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Chicago Sun-Times and Seattle Times. An unusual rat and pig take center stage in Pearls Before Swine, a quirky daily and Sunday comic strip by erstwhile litigator Stephan Pastis.
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