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rky goes inside the soul. His influence on me is enormous. I’ve taken his backgrounds, the front porch, the beach and the TV beanbag. Rat is Lucy, Goat is Linus and Pig is Charlie Brown. Sparky is a template. Whether or not you know it, he’s the template.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dreesen |first=Kathleen |title=A pig, a rat and a goat |work=[[Napa Valley Register]] |url=http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/a-pig-a-rat-and-a-goat/article_e9f30798-0162-500b-bcb4-d4b2479d6d56.html |date=September 2, 2006 |access-date=August 29, 2011}}</ref></blockquote>
Pastis lives in [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]], California, with his wife Staci and two children, where he is on the board of the [[Charles Schulz Museum]], helping with merchandising rights issues and answering questions about ''Peanuts''.
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<blockquote>Schulz is to comic strips what [[Marlon Brando]] was to acting. It was so revolutionary. Before "Peanuts", the writing was physical, over the top, but Sparky goes inside the soul. His influence on me is enormous. I’ve taken his backgrounds, the front porch, the beach and the TV beanbag. Rat is Lucy, Goat is Linus and Pig is Charlie Brown. Sparky is a template. Whether or not you know it, he’s the template.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dreesen |first=Kathleen |title=A pig, a rat and a goat |work=[[Napa Valley Register]] |url=http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/a-pig-a-rat-and-a-goat/article_e9f30798-0162-500b-bcb4-d4b2479d6d56.html |date=September 2, 2006 |access-date=August 29, 2011}}</ref></blockquote>


In 2011, Pastis cowrote the [[Peanuts filmography|Peanuts special]] ''[[Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown]]''.
In 2011, Pastis cowrote the [[Peanuts filmography|Peanuts special]] ''[[Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown]]''.

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Not to be confused with Stefan Fatsis.
Stephan Pastis
Pastis at the 2011 Helsinki Comics Festival in Helsinki, Finland.
Born
Stephan Thomas Pastis

(1968-01-16) January 16, 1968 (age 56)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (JD)
Occupation(s)Insurance defense litigation attorney (1993–2002)
Cartoonist of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine (2000–present)
SpouseStaci
Children2
Websitestephanpastis.wordpress.com

Stephan Thomas Pastis (/ˈstɛfən ˈpæstɪs/ STEF-ən PAS-tiss;[2] born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and former lawyer who is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He also writes children's chapter books, commencing with the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. The seventh book, It's the End When I Say It's the End,[3] debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade Books.[4]

Background

The son of Greek immigrants, Pastis was raised in San Marino, California.[5] 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. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a B.A. in political science in 1989. The next year, Pastis attended law school at UCLA, where he received his J.D.[6][7] He kept drawing during this time, coming up with the first Pearls Before Swine character, Rat, during what he said was a boring class in law school.[8]

When I wrote for him [Rat] it seemed pretty honest. It was the first character where I could really say what's on my mind. When I put it on paper, it's my voice. So it works for me.[9]

From 1993 to 2002, Pastis was an insurance defense litigation attorney in the San Francisco Bay area, but he quickly became disenchanted with the legal profession. He did not like its adversarial nature or "the anxiety and tension it produced",[8] so in the mid-1990s he revisited his earlier ambition of becoming a syndicated cartoonist by submitting various concepts to syndication agencies. The Infirm,[10] Rat,[11] Bradbury Road,[12] and others were repeatedly rejected.

Pearls Before Swine

Main article: Pearls Before Swine (comic strip)

The character Rat came from Pastis's earlier strip, Rat. The character Pig, who is Rat's opposite, had been featured in The Infirm, which was about an attorney who numbered an evil pig farmer among his clients. Although Pastis had developed the characters, they were still just stick figures with jokes. 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. The meeting did not begin auspiciously, as Pastis blurted out: "Hi, Sparky [Schulz's nickname], my name is Stephan Pastis and I'm a lawyer." Schulz turned pale, thinking Pastis was there to serve him with a subpoena. But he recovered, and Pastis remembers Schulz's graciousness:

I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour. I took a picture with him. He looked at some of the strips that I had been doing and gave me some tips. Man, I was on cloud nine.[5]

Personal life

rky goes inside the soul. His influence on me is enormous. I’ve taken his backgrounds, the front porch, the beach and the TV beanbag. Rat is Lucy, Goat is Linus and Pig is Charlie Brown. Sparky is a template. Whether or not you know it, he’s the template.[13]

In 2011, Pastis cowrote the Peanuts special Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown.

Timmy Failure

On February 25, 2013, Pastis released his first book aimed at younger readers, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, from Candlewick Press. Modeled after the popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Timmy Failure follows the exploits of a young detective-to-be and his polar bear friend, Total, as they solve crimes in their neighborhood. A sequel, Timmy Failure: Now Look What You've Done, was released on February 25, 2014. A third book, Timmy Failure: We Meet Again, was released on October 28, 2014. The fourth book, Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection, was released on October 6, 2015. The fifth, Timmy Failure: The Book You're Not Supposed To Have, was released on September 27, 2016. The sixth, Timmy Failure: The Cat Stole My Pants was released on April 25, 2017, and the seventh, Timmy Failure: It's The End When I Say It's The End, was released in September 2018. A prequel to the series, Zero to Hero ("Volume 0") (2020) is the eighth.[14]

Film adaptation

Main article: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

In April 2017, Disney started work on a Timmy Failure movie with Tom McCarthy directing and co-writing with Pastis.[15] The film was released on Disney's family-oriented streaming service Disney+ in January 2020.[16] The film was shot from July to September 2018 in Portland, Oregon.[17]

Awards

Pastis was nominated for the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008,[18] and 2014. He won the 2003, 2006, and 2014 awards.[19] He was also nominated for The National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year for every year since 2008. Pastis won the 2018 Reuben Award.[20]

References

  1. ^ "Stephan T Pastis, Born 01/16/1968 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  2. ^ Pearls Blows Up, a Pearls Before Swine film by Stephan Pastis
  3. ^ Cavna, Michael (February 25, 2013). "'Pearls Before Swine' creator takes on Timmy Failure in new series of kids' books". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  4. ^ "Best Sellers: Children's Middle Grade". The New York Times. March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Hartlaub, Peter (September 16, 2005). "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  6. ^ "Stephan Thomas Pastis – #168717". Attorney Search. The State Bar of California. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  7. ^ Pastis, Stephan (March 18, 2011). "Comic for March 18, 2011". Pearls Before Swine. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  8. ^ a b "Interview: Stephan Pastis: Attorney Turned Cartoonist". JDBliss. November 2006. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  9. ^ Smith, Richard L. (2006). "Stephan Pastis: Animal Attitude". Crescent Blues. Vol. 9, no. 1. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  10. ^ "Cartoons and Funnies – The Infirm". Baywalk.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  11. ^ Pastis, Stephan (2004). Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7407-4807-3.
  12. ^ "Cartoons and Funnies – Bradbury Road". Baywalk.com. Archived from the original on September 5, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  13. ^ Dreesen, Kathleen (September 2, 2006). "A pig, a rat and a goat". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  14. ^ "Stephan Pastis". 9 January 2019.
  15. ^ Kroll, Justin (25 April 2017). "'Spotlight' Director Tom McCarthy Eyeing 'Timmy Failure' at Disney". Variety. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  16. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (February 8, 2018). "Disney Unveils Inaugural Streaming Service Launch Slate To Town; No R-Rated Fare". Deadline. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  17. ^ https://www.backstage.com/casting/disneys-timmy-failure-general-background-233374/ [bare URL]
  18. ^ Alan Gardner (16 March 2009). "NCS 2008 Division Awards announced". The Daily Cartoonist. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  19. ^ "National Cartoonists Society". nationalcartoonists.com. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  20. ^ "Stephan Pastis Wins Reuben Award for 2018 Cartoonist of the Year!". Retrieved May 31, 2021.
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