6 attack on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., by supporters of President Donald Trump as Congress met to recognize the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden, a syndicate spokesman said. Pastis submitted the strips more than a month ago and never meant to comment on the Jan.
“You’re always branding yourself” as a creator, the cartoonist also points out.An upcoming storyline in “Pearls Before Swine,” the popular comic strip created by Santa Rosa cartoonist Stephan Pastis, has been pulled from 850 newspapers by its distributor because five installments scheduled to run next week depicted a military coup. “There’s a ‘meet the cartoonist’ curiosity factor ,” says Pastis, adding that people wonder: Does he look like how he draws himself? Specifically, he notes, with a large stomach and always smoking. He says the hybrid character, in an odd way, has made him more famous. For a guy doing book signings in 2014, it’s a perilous thing for strip cartoonists,” says Pastis, noting the times he has spoken to far more empty chairs than full ones - although he mostly draws large audiences these days. “This is engaging readers - and anything to get people talking about the comic ,” he says.
Pastis also sees an upside or two to walking this gray-area tightrope between fact and comic fiction.
(STEPHAN PASTIS/Distributed by Universal Uclick ) As a result, he has started dating again.” The first panel advances the fictional action: “Stephan Pastis’s wife has left him. It might have ended there, but then: Last Sunday’s strip appeared. Only Pastis’s comic alter-ego was suddenly single. “We had to say to the agent: ‘No-no- no! That’s not real,’ ” the cartoonist tells Comic Riffs. The agent had read the cartoonist’s January strips that had a running comic premise: Stephan Pastis - or rather, “Stephan Pastis” - was being forced out of his house by the never-pictured “Staci Pastis.” The cartoon couple was separating, and perhaps divorcing. “Our real estate agent called Staci and said: ‘I have to tell you, I saw what you’re going through here … ,’ “ recounts the cartoonist. That’s because Staci is married to Stephan Pastis, the sometimes mischievous creator of the comic “Pearls Before Swine.” Which means her life is also intertwined with “Stephan Pastis,” the cartoonist’s meta-persona who appears IN “Pearls Before Swine.” The agent had read what was up, and sympathized with Staci, and also thought perhaps her realty expertise might soon be of service. She phoned Staci Pastis, who lives in Northern California, and spoke of the matter at hand both personally and professionally. THE FIRST call of concern came from the real estate agent.
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