But one salesman at the syndicate changed that with just one word. After that phase, Pastis expected to start appearing in print.
One of them, United, offered a “trial” run where they would verify he could turn in strips on a consistent basis before going out to newspapers. A SALES GUY ALMOST KILLED THE STRIP.Īfter honing his skills, Pastis’s Pearls drew the attention of several syndicates. (The title comes from a Bible verse, Matthew 7:6: “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.”) 3. Focusing more on two misanthropic animal characters, Rat and Pig, Pastis started circulating samples of Pearls Before Swine in 1999. The meeting emboldened Pastis, who took to reading Dilbert collections to try and evaluate why successful strips worked. Schulz graciously invited him to sit down and gave him some input on The Infirm, a legal comedy Pastis was working on at the time. Hearing that Peanuts creator Charles Schulz stopped in for breakfast every morning at a Santa Rosa ice skating rink, Pastis staked out the arena in 1996 in the hopes of soliciting some advice from the legendary cartoonist. “But in truth, what you do is, you get in petty fights with other lawyers about who served whom and when, and how well you can bury someone in discovery, and keep someone in deposition for hours.” 2. “When you’re in law school, you think you’re going to be a lawyer like Oliver Wendell Holmes, arguing esoteric points of law,” he told in 2014. At night, he would draw and send samples to syndicates.
The San Marino, California native practiced in the field of insurance defense from 1993 to 2002, representing insurance companies who were being sued by policyholders.
STEPHAN PASTIS STARTED OUT AS A CARTOONING LAWYER.īefore he committed to cartooning as a profession, Stephan Pastis studied to become an attorney. Take a look at a few things you might not have realized about the strip’s history, including its origins and why the notoriously reclusive Bill Watterson once paid it an illustrated visit. Since its quiet debut online in 2001, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis’s strip about an anthropomorphic and acerbic band of animals trading barbs and cultural commentary, has become one of the bigger success stories in modern-day cartooning.
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