He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. "I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour. However, he recovered, and Pastis remembers Schulz's graciousness: The meeting didn't begin auspiciously, since Pastis blurted out: "Hi, Sparky, my name is Stephan Pastis and I'm a lawyer." Schulz turned pale he thought Pastis was there to serve him with a subpoena. One day in 1996, Pastis drove to an ice rink in Santa Rosa where Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, had his coffee every day. Although Pastis had developed the characters, they were still just stick figures with jokes. The character of Pig, who is Rat's diametric opposite, had been featured in The Infirm, which was about an attorney who numbered an evil pig farmer among his clients. The character of Rat came from Pastis's earlier strip, Rat. Pearls Before Swine Main article: Pearls Before Swine The Infirm, Rat and Bradbury Road, as well as others, were repeatedly rejected.
He didn't like its adversarial nature, nor "the anxiety and tension it produced," so in the mid-1990s he revisited his earlier ambition of becoming a syndicated cartoonist by submitting various concepts to syndication agencies. So it works for me." įrom 1993 to 2002, Pastis practiced law as an insurance defense litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay area, but quickly became disenchanted with it. It was the first character where I could really say what's on my mind. "When I wrote for him it seemed pretty honest. He kept drawing all during this time, coming up with the character of the first Pearls Before Swine character, Rat, during a boring class in law school. The following year Pastis attended law school at UCLA. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A. He started cartooning as a child his mother brought him pens and paper to amuse him when he was "sick a lot" and had to stay in bed. A second-generation Greek-American, Pastis was raised in San Marino, California.
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